Rogers Memorial Hospital Uses Recovery Month to Announce Addiction Treatment Services Expansion

Rogers Memorial Hospital is using September’s National Recovery Month to announce it is enhancing addiction treatment services at its Brown Deer, Kenosha, Madison and Oconomowoc locations. Rogers will expand its “dual diagnosis” services to address not only addictive disorders but also psychiatric disorders such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and psychological trauma, which often co-occur with addiction.

This fall the Herrington Recovery Center will offer a dual diagnosis track within its residential care programming, and new intensive outpatient programs will be added at Rogers’ Madison and Kenosha clinics. In addition, the Brown Deer location will offer Rogers’ first dual diagnosis program for patients under age 18.

“Most addiction programs have little to no psychiatric services, and few deal intensively with co-occurring disorders. Yet what we have found is that often those with mood disorders, anxiety, OCD or trauma will turn to alcohol and other substances as a way to self-medicate and later develop addiction,” said Michael Miller, MD, FASAM, FAPA, medical director of Rogers’ Herrington Recovery Center in Oconomowoc. “By incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients in our addiction programs, Rogers is able to effectively treat the alcohol or other drug addiction as well as the psychiatric disorder, thus improving the patient’s chance of a long-term successful recovery. Research shows the most successful recovery is obtained in persons with co-occurring disorders where their conditions were addressed concurrently, not separately.”

Rogers’ dual diagnosis programs are able to provide both psychiatric consultation and concurrent treatment of mental health concerns by board-certified psychiatrists. The primary goal of these enhanced addiction programs is to improve psychiatric symptoms and daily functioning while addressing obstacles affecting abstinence and recovery from alcohol and/or other substances. In each program, the schedule is arranged to include sessions with behavioral specialists who provide CBT and other clinical approaches, including behavioral activation and exposure and response prevention.

As with other addiction programming at Rogers, the dual diagnosis programs provide core addiction services, including utilizing the 12-Step facilitation, group and individual therapy. Rogers’ addiction specialists also offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT), or the use of pharmacological therapies for alcohol, opioid and nicotine addiction, at the West Allis Lincoln Center office and are planning to add this service to other locations.

Each September, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) observes Recovery Month, highlighting the prevention, treatment and recovery services that help individuals celebrate recovery from a mental health or substance use disorder.

“As a leader in providing addiction services, we realize that the first step toward recovery is often the hardest,” said Dr. Miller. “We’re proud of the fact that we’ve helped many through recovery and that they are now sharing their stories of hope and recovery on www.rogersinhealth.org. Staying engaged in treatment, appreciating sobriety and sharing your story of recovery and hope is all part of a successful recovery process.”

For more information on Rogers’ addiction programs or dual diagnosis treatment programs, including services at Rogers’ Herrington Recovery Center in Oconomowoc, please visit www.rogershospital.org.