The Treatment Community

How to Open an Addiction Treatment Center in Illinois

Illinois does require substance use treatment providers to obtain a license to provide treatment in the state. The state’s licensing program is overseen by the Department of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery.

How to Open an Addiction Treatment Center in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is a great state to open an addiction treatment center. With a high number of people suffering from SUD, there is a high demand for services to treat the disease of addiction. Pennsylvania is also unique in the nation because it allows addiction treatment providers to prescribe medical marijuana to treat opioid use disorder.

How to Open an Addiction Treatment Center in Ohio

Ohio is reeling under the opioid crisis and is scrambling to respond to a surge in demand for addiction treatment as the nation faces a mental health crisis deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic. These numbers show that the demand is there. Nevertheless, access to treatment lags behind, particularly in diverse communities and particularly for culturally competent care.

Contingency Management is Coming. Is Your Addiction Treatment Center Ready?

Contingency Management is a treatment modality that intermittently rewards clean time and program participation with cash or prizes. While some have moral objections to “paying an addict to get sober,” others point to the fact that, unlike a lot of treatments for meth, cocaine and stimulant abuse, Contingency Management (CM) actually works.

Should Your Addiction Treatment Center Require Vaccines for Employees?

Let’s take a look at the whole picture of vaccines and addiction treatment and examine what we know about requiring - or not requiring - vaccines at treatment facilities throughout the United States.

Even Post-Pandemic, Virtual Addiction Treatment Care Will be Here to Stay

Surveys show that 2 in 3 addiction treatment providers who adopted telehealth in response to the pandemic will maintain a telehealth presence after the pandemic wanes. Why?


Here's What Your Addiction Treatment Facility Needs to Know About ERKA in 2021

The act targets patient brokering and other practices designed to defraud insurance companies.

Has Your Addiction Treatment Center Nailed Outcomes Tracking Yet? Here's Why It's More Critical Than Ever

Large-scale research for addiction treatment lags far behind research for other health conditions. As an industry, we’ve been slow to move towards standardized models for understanding and evaluating the success of our work. That’s changing now as market forces are requiring the addiction treatment to undertake objective progress monitoring and outcomes tracking as never before.

How to Start a Addiction Treatment Center in Arizona the Easy Way

Arizona is a gorgeous state with great weather - and a state that has a big opioid problem, making it a great candidate for your next addiction treatment center location.

Open an Addiction Treatment Center in CA – Behave Health

So, you want to open an addiction treatment center (also known as a drug rehab) in the Golden State of California? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve sifted through the official documents to bring you the Cliff Notes version of how to get the job done.

Can Your Addiction Treatment Center's EHR Handle Value Based Care?

Many health care experts are calling values based care the wave of the future. Smart players in the addiction treatment community are getting ready to embrace the change before it’s too late.

Stop Keeping Bed Availability at Your Addiction Treatment Center a Secret - Set up Automatic Updates Today

How do potential patients and their loved ones discover that your addiction treatment center has free beds?

VOB Delays = Addiction Treatment Admissions Killer. Turbocharge Your Insurance Verifications with eVOBs

Learn about instant VOBs — also known as eVOBs — and how they could be a game changer for your addiction treatment center.


Behave Health App: Mobile EHR/CRM for Addiction Centers

We are very pleased to announce that the Behave Health App is now officially available - for free - at both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store!

The staff- and client-facing versions are both ready for you to download and explore.

Whether you access the app with an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet, you’ll enjoy the same easy-to-use, HIPAA-compliant, all-in-one software solution that’s simplifying operations and improving the bottom line of addiction treatment centers, recovery homes and behavioral health organizations across the country.

When Will Staff and Patients at Your Addiction Treatment Center Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Here's What We Know.

Addiction treatment centers suffer greatly under the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when the United States needs more addiction treatment than ever before. When will staff and residents be able to access their first (and second) doses of the COVID-19 vaccine?

How to Run Better Virtual Group Counseling Sessions at Your Addiction Treatment Center

With the pandemic raging, many addiction treatment centers have pivoted to a more online format. Virtual group therapy is becoming the norm, introducing a new set of challenges for practitioners.

2021: Adapt and Modernize Your Addiction Treatment Center - Or Else

Change has been constant in the addiction treatment community in the last 10 years. We have seen more change more quickly in the last few years than we have seen in an entire generation.