Last year, the District of Columbia opened its first sobering center, or “stabilization” center, to provide short-term care for people experiencing substance-use crisis or emergency. This center provides medically assisted treatment, offers services to continue recovery care, and connects patients with a host of supportive individuals, such as nurses and nurse practitioners, peer specialists, and recovery coaches. […]
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Catalina Desouza is a public health student. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.