
Addiction Medicine Program – Substance Use
A nationally recognized flagship program combining 24/7 medical care, withdrawal management and a skilled interdisciplinary team.
Are you a first responder facing mental health challenges? Homewood Health Centre can help. Find out more
Addiction is a complex condition characterized by the repeated use of a substance or engagement in a behaviour despite adverse consequences. It is a brain disorder affecting a person’s motivation, reward, and memory functions.
Substance use includes alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, and prescription or illegal drugs. Substance use can develop into problematic disorders and addiction, negatively impacting individuals and their lives.
Addiction and substance use can negatively impact your life, well-being, and those around you. Seeking treatment and support can help you manage your addiction and improve your overall quality of life.
Highly structured curriculums using a bio-social-spiritual approach that includes skills development, as well as abstinence from drugs or alcohol, to help patients move forward in long-term recovery.
A nationally recognized flagship program combining 24/7 medical care, withdrawal management and a skilled interdisciplinary team.
Comprehensive medical and clinical care for individuals dealing with substance use issues and the symptoms of mood/anxiety disorders.
Dedicated to adults who are struggling with the symptoms of trauma(s), occupational injury, or with co-occurring trauma and addiction.
Supporting first responders, military personnel and veterans living with anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, and/or the impacts of trauma as standalone or co-occurring disorders.
Supporting mature adults with physical comorbidities and cognitive deficits in an environment with peers of comparable age and life experience.
Designed specifically for health care workers experiencing challenges related to substance use and concurrent issues relating to mood and or anxiety.
Coming to the Homewood Health Centre is often the beginning of the recovery journey. Homewood offers different recovery management and outpatient programs that provide professional support and guidance to help individuals sustain their recovery.
Homewood’s recovery management initiatives focus on skill consolidation, relapse prevention, overall wellness, and the involvement of one’s family and support system. These offerings can be tailored to meet the needs of each client.
For more information on Homewood’s recovery management services, please email us at treatment@homewoodhealth.com
People with substance use disorders and addiction may continue their behaviours despite negative consequences like losing relationships, jobs, injuries, and accidents. People can find long-term recovery with the right clinicians, program, support network, and recovery plan.
Homewood Touchpoint is an innovative, integrated, standardized measurement tool developed explicitly with our patients in mind.
Patients can better understand their recovery and work with their clinicians using friendly, graphical tools.
Clinicians can use this information to develop treatment plans and evaluate progress.
Homewood Health Centre is a fully accredited, physician-led, medically-based inpatient treatment facility offering several specialized programs and extensive services to treat a wide range of mental health issues including trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression as well as co-occurring mental health and addiction issues.
Located in a relaxing 50 acre setting in Guelph, Ontario, Homewood Health Centre is one of Canada’s foremost mental health treatment facilities and we serve as a provincial and national resource for patients, families and their communities.