Atrium Life offers Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) to clients who meet certain criteria. Typically, these are clients who have been unable to maintain long term recovery through abstinence-based programs. Persons suffering from an opioid use disorder usually benefit the most from MAT programs, but they have helped many chronic alcoholics as well.

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Regardless of the medication they use, our MAT program team understands their value. They’ve seen the progress MAT clients make firsthand. Not surprisingly, this is part of a national trend. Drugs like suboxone, naltrexone, and vivitrol have become very useful tools for thousands of recovering people.
 

Our MAT track provides its clients with medications that counter drug use and reduce cravings. Simultaneously, this track maintains strict ethical guidelines and the necessary oversight. Our treatment includes:

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*How our physicians prescribe the medications

*The clients for whom they’re prescribed
*They way clients take them
*The duration of use

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Our Medication-Assisted Treatment in Catonsville, MD  typically lasts one to six months. Like other MAT programs, Atrium Life manages it as a long-term tapering schedule from opioid drugs. Importantly, we administer these programs to persons who have been unable to maintain sobriety through abstinence based programs. Lastly, these clients must participate in one of our different levels of care treatment programs.

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The low but reasonable doses prescribed by our facility are consistent with its purpose of being a risk-reduction and craving-reducing component of the program, rather than it being an indefinite replacement for the substances previously being taken.

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By the time a client reaches the maximum program length, medication has already stopped being prescribed and dosages had, throughout the months, been cut so low (even skipping certain days of the week by the end) that a total cutoff of the medication is commonly not uncomfortable at all.

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Clients are then allowed to continue their journey to sobriety and move on to a substance-free lifestyle using the tools they retained during their treatment.

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