Substance Use Disorder services for adults are designed for individuals age 18 and older with identified substance use related disorders. Services and Supports include:
-Recovery Supports such Recovery Centers and Support Services, Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
-Outpatient treatment such as individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, community support team
-Other Enhanced Services (outpatient):
-Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program (SAIOP)
-Substance Abuse Comprehensive Outpatient Treatment (SACOT)
-Community Support Team (CST)
-Opioid Treatment Program (OTP)
-Residential Services such as halfway house, residential treatment, and other group living services
-Detoxification Services
-Inpatient Hospital
-Substance abuse services for pregnant women and women with children.These services provide comprehensive gender-specific substance abuse services that may include, but are not limited to the following: assessment, case management, individual, group and family therapy, substance abuse intensive and/or comprehensive out-patient services, parenting training, residential services, coordination with primary and preventative health care, ancillary services and referrals for appropriate interventions for the children.
-Work First is a statewide initiative to provide early identification of Work First applicants and recipients that have substance use problems that impact their ability to become self-sufficient, Class H or I controlled substance felons that have substance use problems who are applying for Work First and/or Food and Nutrition Services to access substance use services, and to assist parents who are involved with Child Protective Services, who have substance use problems, to engage in appropriate treatment.
-Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC) services are designed to address addiction, mental illness and criminal behavior among the criminal offender population with the aim of reducing criminal activity and drug use among this population.
Services are delivered by contracted providers of Local Management Entities. Local Management Entities manage and oversee publicly funded mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual and developmental disability services to North Carolinians.