A Holistic & Practical Approach for Addressing Opioid Substance Use Disorder-Roberts_ Recovery and Treatment Approaches Recording

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Dr. Ramona Roberts, Executive Director of Carin Outpatient Treatment Center, explains how addiction treatment is matched to each person using the ASAM criteria. She reviews the six assessment dimensions: withdrawal risk, biomedical concerns, psychological issues, readiness to change, relapse potential, and recovery environment. These guide placement into levels of care such as detox, inpatient/residential treatment, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient (IOP), primary outpatient, recovery maintenance, family services, and sober living.<br /><br />She also describes common treatment roles and specialties, including counselors, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and substance use and trauma-certified clinicians. Treatment approaches discussed include CBT, DBT, ACT, 12-step support, and trauma-focused therapies. Roberts emphasizes that substance use and mental health conditions often occur together, making dual diagnosis assessment essential.<br /><br />A major focus is trauma, which she links closely to substance use, relapse, and mental health symptoms. She explains trauma-informed care, nervous system responses like fight, flight, freeze, and submission, and how substances may function as survival strategies rather than simple pleasure-seeking behaviors. She closes by stressing compassionate assessment, collaboration with medical providers, and individualized, integrated treatment.

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Dr. Roberts Recovery and Treatment Approaches Recording

Keywords

ASAM criteria

addiction treatment

dual diagnosis

trauma-informed care

levels of care

substance use disorder

CBT

IOP

recovery maintenance