Connecticut Valley Addiction Recovery Inc

“Completed form is emailed to the governing body. Each member confirms receipt and is given time to ask questions, etc.”

“Conflict of interest policy sent to board of directors at quarterly meetings for review.”

“Upon request, documents will be sent via usps or email. As we are developing our website, they will also be added to be accessed there.”

“Connecticut valley addiction recovery, inc is dedicated to the treatment and support of individuals with substance use and related disorders. Cvar believes that healing the underlying behavioral and emotional problems contributing to addiction is crucial to achieving long term sobriety. If left untreated, these issues can easily lead to relapse, which is a disservice to all of the hard work put into recovery. The clinical team provides individual counseling, group therapy and case management to identify and heal the mental and emotional disorders which contribute to addiction.”

“-- medications for treatment of opioid use disorder -- cvar has expanded access to treatment of opioid use disorder including the prescription of medications approved for office?based treatment. Cvar remains the only non-profit single specialty multidisciplinary practice devoted to the care of individuals with sud. Our third prescriber added a third day of patient sessions in 2024 and now sees patients three days/week. The other two prescribers continue to see patients and increase their census as needed. Arrangements with the local hospital emergency departments continue, under the program of rapid access to medication, to accept referrals of patients who are seen and evaluated in the ed and have medication treatment started. These referrals are seen within 24 hours (referrals made on weekends the following monday). A similar program has been developed for outpatient management of alcohol detoxification and treatment. Our focus on treating alcohol use disorder with fda-approved medications has been further developed and our use of that modality has increased. In 2024 cvar served 433 unique clients.”

“-- counseling services for substance use disorder -- all patients being treated for substance use disorders see a counselor for individual and/or group sessions. Expansion of our group offerings has been hampered by the loss of one therapist in the last year. Plans are to replace her and add another therapist (< 1 fte) to conduct groups. We continue to tailor our group offerings to include gender specific groups facilitated and a telehealth group to extend access to working clients and those without transportation. We use telehealth technology for individual counseling for those individuals with significant transportation issues or other, insurmountable, access barriers. Plans are being made to have sufficient counseling capacity so that services can be offered to patients who are not currently receiving medication from our prescribers. The practice now is a referral partner with the vermont impaired driver rehabilitation program and will become associated with the new windsor county drug court with its inception in 2025. In 2024 there were 3115 counseling visits, with some patients coming solely for counseling without medication assisted treatment.”