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Clinical setting · BH-ADM

Addiction Medicine

Person-centered treatment of substance use and related health conditions using medications, behavioral care, harm reduction, recovery supports, and coordinated transitions across settings.

Care setting overview

Addiction Medicine

BH-ADM

Person-centered treatment of substance use and related health conditions using medications, behavioral care, harm reduction, recovery supports, and coordinated transitions across settings.

Care model
Low-barrier, longitudinal, and level-of-care matched addiction treatment
Typical pace
Rapid access and frequent early follow-up, with intensity adjusted to withdrawal risk, stability, and recovery needs
Population
People with substance use disorders, hazardous use, intoxication or withdrawal risk, and co-occurring psychiatric or medical conditions

Common presentations

  • Alcohol, opioid, stimulant, sedative, cannabis, nicotine, and polysubstance use
  • Craving, relapse, overdose risk, intoxication, withdrawal, and medication-treatment questions
  • Co-occurring mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma-related, pain, infectious, hepatic, and social concerns

PMHNP priorities

  • Assess intoxication, withdrawal, overdose, suicide risk, and immediate medical needs
  • Offer evidence-based medication treatment and harm-reduction interventions without unnecessary delay
  • Match care intensity to need and maintain continuity through relapse, hospitalization, detoxification, or reentry

Care team

PMHNPs, addiction psychiatrists and physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, recovery coaches, peer specialists, social workers, primary care clinicians, and infectious-disease or pain specialists

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