NEW HOPE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER

New Hope Behavioral Health Center is an outpatient behavioral healthcare clinic that specializes in partnering with health care professionals to manage the very difficult and delicate task of withdrawing their opiate dependent patients. This is challenging, but rewarding work, and it enables you to distinguish between legitimate pain and induced pain associated with Withdrawal Syndrome. Generally, patients with legitimate pain are prescribed pain medication. Often times, managing these patients long term can be taxing and risky when the provider begins to feel as though the patient is drug-seeking. Ethically, it can be difficult to refuse to continue care...but what option do providers have? We at NEW HOPE are the option. Research indicates that every year nearly six million Americans use prescription opioid pain medication, and in some communities abuse prescription pain medication has overtaken cocaine and marijuana use. The 2002 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NH...