Medication Assisted Treatment in Columbus, Ohio

For opioid use disorder, which covers heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioids, the options are buprenorphine, the medication in Suboxone, and extended release naltrexone, sold as Vivitrol. For alcohol use disorder the FDA has approved naltrexone, acamprosate and disulfiram. Admissions can tell you which of these the Columbus facility offers and in what form, and whether one suits you is decided with the prescriber. The Columbus care team can also give buprenorphine as a long acting injection, Sublocade once a month or Brixadi every week or every month.

Before anything is prescribed, a nurse practitioner and a registered nurse go over what you have been using, your medical history and the medications you take now. Bring your medication list. If withdrawal needs managing first, ambulatory detox runs in the same building, and a medication started there can carry on into your next program.

MAT at Leora always sits inside a level of care. In Columbus that is partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient or outpatient, and your medication management appointments with the nurse practitioner follow it: at least once a week in partial hospitalization, every two to three weeks in the other two. Between those appointments you are in therapy group, where most of the treatment happens.

Call (614) 665-8878 or walk in. Leora accepts Medicaid and all major commercial insurance, and you can check your coverage first. If Dayton is closer, the same program runs at 948 Patterson Rd.