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  • Ashley Addiction Treatment

    Ashley Addiction Treatment

    In addition to evidence-based treatment, Ashley offers spiritual counseling and support and alternative, holistic therapies.

    Introduction and Basic Services

    The long running Ashley Addiction Treatment has three locations in Maryland. Its main residential treatment campus is located on 147 acres on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay in Northern Maryland. It’s close to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, DC and northern Virginia. With scenic waterside views and plentiful greenery, Ashley Addiction Treatment provides clients with a tranquil setting that’s ideal for creating a solid foundation in sobriety and recovery.

    Formerly known as Father Martin’s Ashley, Ashley Addiction Treatment was founded in 1983 by Father Joseph C. Martin, S.S and his business partner, Mae Abraham. The facility is named after Abraham’s maiden name, Ashley. Mae Abraham thought to open a treatment facility after attending Father Martin’s 1964 “Chalk Talks” about addiction at Johns Hopkins University. Father Martin’s talks inspired those suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction to seek help in a formalized setting. He has been celebrated for being an advocate for those suffering from addiction and recognizing addiction as a disease rather than a chocie.

    Accredited by the Joint Commission, Ashley Addiction Treatment is committed to preserving Father Martin’s memory by providing extensive options for care to anyone who seeks help for alcohol and drug addiction. Ashley Addiction Treatment offers a wide range of services including detox, residential treatment and outpatient care, dual diagnosis support, holistic modalities and aftercare programming.

    Facility and Meals

    Ashley Addiction Treatment is a large resort-style treatment facility with hotel style accommodations and amenities. Both private and double rooms (with one queen size bed or two full size beds) are available with a full private bath. Housekeeping staff cleans rooms and prides fresh bedding and towels daily and can provide laundry and dry cleaning services.

    Clients eat all meals in a dining room. A staff dietitian and chef create a seasonal menu with local, fresh ingredient based on a client’s medical and special dietary needs.

    Treatment Protocol and Team

    Ashley Addiction Treatment’s primary residential program includes medical, psychological and psychiatric care as well as holistic treatment. Care includes a consultation to evaluate a client’s medical, therapeutic and dietary needs and on-site medically assisted detox, individual and group therapy and 12-step. Ashley also offers experiential counseling including interactive and skill-based workshops and continuing education to understand addiction. Each client can anticipate an individualized treatment and aftercare plan. The length of stay is contingent on a client’s individual needs and treatment plan.

    The facility’s medical care includes a review of client’s medical and psychiatric history, laboratory tests and toxicology screenings. Medically assisted detox that can administer anti-craving medications like naltrexone, acamprosate, disulfram, and buprenorphine is available to clients who need it. Clients have 24/7 access to nurses and a medical provider.

    Ashley Addiction Treatment evaluates clients for co-occurring psychological or psychiatric conditions. From there, they receive an integrated treatment plan that includes specialized therapies to treat trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, stress and chronic pain.

    A third main component of Ashley’s primary care is holistic treatment that aims to restore a client’s mind, body and spirit. The holistic offerings include yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture,spiritual support, yoga and personal trainer led exercise. Clients can also expect music and art therapy.

    Staff includes an on-site multidisciplinary team of board certified physicians, physician assistants and nurses. The medical team specializes in diagnosing and treating the effects of drug and alcohol addiction. Ashley Addiction Treatment also employs full time psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and Master’s-level counselors.

    Other treatment programs include an emerging adult program for adolescents, relapse recovery, pain recovery, outpatient and family wellness for family members over the age of 15, and children and youth program for family members ages six to 14.

    Ashley’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at its Bel Air and Elkton facilities offers an eight week evidence-based treatment for adults ages 18 years and older. Alcohol and drug addiction treatment is based on the Matrix Model and includes ambulatory detox, individual and group therapy, anti-craving medication-assisted therapy, relapse prevention therapy, acupuncture, meditation, Naloxone Certification and a family program.

    The Ashley Addiction Treatment outpatient facilities also offer opiate treatment and maintenance. The IOP also partners with Hartford County’s Project Healthy Delivery, which helps pregnant women struggling with addiction get treatment and counseling needed for continued sobriety.

    Bonus Amenities

    Residents enjoy a state of the art indoor fitness center including a gym staffed with personal trainers, basketball and volleyball courts and yoga rooms. Additionally, Ashley’s sprawling campus offers outdoor walking trails and jogging paths, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, gardens and a chapel.

    Ashley Addiction Treatment recently opened a new wing on it main campus, Skip’s Hall. It offers integrated addiction treatment and holistic care. Here clients can garner extended recovery skills, relapse prevention and an overall health and wellness education. Treatment fosters spirituality, spiritual counseling, grief counseling, mindfulness meditation, sound therapy, drumming, art therapy and Catholic mass and non-denominational services.

    Overlapping with the emphasis on holistic treatment, the wellness services at Ashley Addiction Treatment include acudetox, personal training, yoga, acupuncture and massage sessions, Reiki and cupping therapy. All of wellness services at this facility are designed to support therapy and foster relapse prevention and mindfulness.

    Summary

    Ashley Addiction Treatment offers a wide range of support for alcohol and drug addiction and co-occurring disorders. Clients also enjoy myriad wellness services on a beautiful, sweeping campus with waterside views. With resort-style amenities, clients can experience a full program of recreational and fitness activities. In addition to evidence-based treatment, Ashley offers spiritual counseling and support and alternative, holistic therapies. Accredited by the Joint Commission, Ashley also offers a wide range of outpatient, family care, opiate treatment and maintenance and relapse recovery in two additional facilities.

    Ashley Addiction Treatment Location

    Main Campus

    800 Tydings Lane

    Havre de Grace, MD 21078

    (800) 799-4673

    Ashley Addiction Treatment Cost

    Call for cost. Insurance is accepted.

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  • Family Creates Christmas Light Show To Highlight Addiction Struggle

    Family Creates Christmas Light Show To Highlight Addiction Struggle

    A Maryland couple have dedicated their massive Christmas light show to their daughter who is battling opioid addiction. 

    In 2015, Jim Kurtz created a spectacular Christmas light show dedicated to the addiction recovery of his daughter, Caroline, and to those everywhere struggling with addiction. The light show was not only visually captivating but also synchronized the blinking lights to hit songs. 

    In a newly released video reported by The Maryland Patch, the Kurtzes say that their daughter has relapsed and is again in recovery. Caroline has been in 22 recovery facilities in four states over the past seven years.

    This year, Caroline’s mother and father have dedicated a special song in the light show to their daughter: “This Is Me” from the 2017 film The Greatest Showman.

    The Kurtz light and musical show can be seen from half a mile away. Their home in Harford County is decked out with blinking lights, including a 50-foot-tall pine tree, which is the tallest decorated tree in town, as far as they know. The tree is visible from a Starbucks off MD 543 and is hung with oversized, old-fashioned and brightly colored bulbs. Jim Kurtz appreciates the show himself, telling The Patch, “It is amazingly beautiful.”

    Kurtz originally began the light and music show in 2012 and received internet fame for the set piece orchestrated to the hit song, “Call Me Maybe.” Families struggling along with their loved ones battling addiction are becoming more transparent in an attempt to defeat the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction. Memoirs such as Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, and Tweak by Nic Sheff, are gaining national attention. Beautiful Boy is now a movie starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. 

    Jim Kurtz gave The Patch the 2018 show scheduled songs and home information for anyone visiting or local who would like to take in this show dedicated to recovering from addiction.

    The light show features “The Greatest Show,” the theme from Star Wars, a dubstep version of “The Nutcracker,” Griswold track, “12 Days of Christmas,” “Christmas Vacation,” “A Mad Russian’s Christmas,” “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “This Is Me” and “God Bless the USA.”

    Where: 1205 Corinthian Court, Bel Air, MD

    When: Friday, Dec. 7, to Monday, Dec. 31

    Hours: 5-9 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday; 5-10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday

    How to tune in: Listen to 87.9 FM for the music.

    Guests are asked to drive slowly and to refrain from blocking driveways in the neighborhood.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Maryland Funeral Directors: We're The "Last Responders" To Opioid Crisis

    Maryland Funeral Directors: We're The "Last Responders" To Opioid Crisis

    Funeral directors in the state claim that safety has become an issue when dealing with opioid overdose victims. 

    Proactive funeral directors in Maryland are stocking up on naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, as they’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of opioid-related deaths.

    They’re calling themselves the “last responders” to Maryland’s opioid crisis, the Baltimore Sun reports.

    In 2017, the Tri-County Funeral Directors Association launched an awareness campaign in local newspapers to notify communities that “We Don’t Want Your Business” when it comes to opioid abuse.

    “We see a side of this tragic epidemic that many don’t see,” said association president James Schwartz. “The devastation families are facing is heartbreaking.”

    Schwartz tells the Baltimore Sun that other funeral home directors have known not only family members, but funeral home guests “who have come and had either an opioid reaction in the parking lot or other areas during the service time.” 

    “This has caused the folks stress because not only are they grieving this person and now somebody else is having the same tragic result,” Schwartz said.

    The National Funeral Directors Association urges members to protect themselves while handling deceased victims of opioid overdose.

    “Coming into contact with a minuscule dose of fentanyl or carfentanil can be fatal,” the association warns. (This point is oft-repeated, but harm reduction and addiction/recovery advocates say it’s merely a harmful myth.)

    “The opioid crisis presents unique challenges for funeral directors, from working with families whose loved one has died from an overdose to protecting themselves from harm when handling the body of an overdose victim during removal or embalming,” says the funeral directors association.

    In 2017, opioid overdose deaths continued to climb in Maryland, accounting for the majority of drug/alcohol-related deaths—2,009 of 2,282 overdoses were opioid-related, according to the state’s Department of Health.

    “This is an escalating epidemic,” said Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen, whose city saw the worst of the opioid crisis. “But still we don’t even see the peak of this epidemic yet.”

    In response, Maryland schools and libraries are also stocking up on naloxone. “The rule of thumb is: when in doubt, use it,” said funeral director Jeffrey L. Gair.

    The antidote is there “if there’s ever the need while we’re on duty at the funeral home,” Gair said.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Maryland Hit With Record Number Of Fentanyl Deaths

    Maryland Hit With Record Number Of Fentanyl Deaths

    “It’s terrifying that we’re at a point where the numbers escalate every year. We don’t even know where the peak is,” said Baltimore’s health commissioner.

    Maryland hit a sobering new milestone last year: The state saw more fentanyl deaths than ever before. And this year, it turns out, is already on track to set another disquieting record. 

    Of the state’s more than 2,200 intoxication deaths last year, roughly 90% were opioid-related and more than 1,500 involved fentanyl, according to health department data. 

    “It’s terrifying that we’re at a point where the numbers escalate every year. We don’t even know where the peak is,” Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore’s health commissioner, told the Associated Press. 

    But that’s not true across the board. While fentanyl fatalities soared from 1,119 in 2016 to 1,594 last year in a more than 40% jump, heroin deaths are down 11% in the same period.

    Prescription opioid fatalities are down a bit too, though cocaine deaths have jumped up some 49%. Most of that is likely due to the increasing appearance of fentanyl mixed in with coke, state officials said, according to the Washington Post.

    Overall, the “large majority” of the fentanyl deaths occurred in Baltimore, the notoriously drug-riddled Charm City. There, 573 people died of fentanyl overdoses. Four years earlier, the city saw just 12 such fatalities. “That’s a 5,000% increase in four years,” Wen said. 

    The new data comes just over a year after Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency in light of the ongoing opioid epidemic.

    “We need to treat this crisis the exact same way we treat any other state emergency,” he said in a press conference at the time, while announcing an influx of roughly $50 million in funding to combat the problem. “As this crisis evolves, so must our response to it.”

    The crisis in Maryland mirrors struggles playing out in states across the country as overdose deaths are driven up by the prevalence of dangerously strong synthetic opioids like fentanyl and the even stronger carfentanil.

    So far, the problem doesn’t seem poised to improve in 2018. The first three months of the year notched up 653 accidental drug deaths in the state—and 500 of them involved fentanyl, state data showed.

    View the original article at thefix.com