Addiction Recovery Psychiatry

Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals Addiction Recovery Program:

The Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals Addiction Recovery Program offers a comprehensive array of clinical services for individuals seeking recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions. The services include an inpatient detoxification unit, dual-diagnosis partial hospital day program, intensive outpatient evening treatment program, outpatient individual addiction counseling, and a variety of outpatient groups focused on preventing relapse and supporting recovery. We have been serving Boston and its surrounding communities for over 20 years with a long tradition of inspiring hope and treating individuals and their families with dignity, care, and respect as they face the challenge of recovering from the effects of alcohol and/or other drug addictions. Our team is unique in that it brings together experts from the field of medicine, psychiatry, and addiction giving us the ability to care for patients with addiction who also have co-existing medical and/or psychiatric illnesses.

Our Vision:  to continue our long tradition of inspiring hope and providing dignified, respectful care to our patients, while incorporating the latest advances in Addiction Medicine in order to provide our patients will the fullest range and highest quality of treatments.

Our Mission:  to provide evidenced-based, compassionate care in a professional and collaborative manner which creates an atmosphere of hope that not only promotes recovery from alcohol or drug addiction, but provides a space where patients can discover their highest human potential and be inspired to make recovery-oriented changes medically, socially, emotionally, and/or spiritually.

Our Core Values : To Create Hope and Inspire... 

Patient Centered-Care:  We believe that the patient knows himself or herself better than any of us. We aim to provide care that elicits the patient's strengths and supports the patient in a way that helps him or her to make long lasting recovery-oriented changes.

Collaborative Care:  We achieve the best outcomes when we foster collegial staff relationships and deliver care that is team oriented, including recognizing that the patient is a vital part of the team. We strive to dismantle the stigma associated with substance use disorders .

Professional Care: For us, professional care is an attitude that supports recovery-oriented change in our patients, supports our colleagues to continue to provide quality care, and continues to take advantage of opportunities for growth and learning so that we can provide the highest quality, evidence-based treatments.

Inspirational Care: We believe that providing hope to our patients by highlighting their strengths is key to improving their confidence and discovering their human potential, and ultimately inspiring recovery-oriented changes.

Referrals

Patients may self-refer to inpatient treatment by calling 617-983-7060 (option #2) and completing an intake interview with a clinician. Outpatient referrals are made by calling 617-983-7908, where a brief phone intake will be done. Generally this is followed by an appointment with a counselor to match the individual’s needs to the appropriate program or group.

Teaching
As part of our academic mission, the ARP is involved in the training of psychiatry and medical residents as well as trainees from local social work graduate programs. Residents and trainees are closely supervised by attending physicians, and will inform patients about their training status.

Research

The ARP is working on several research projects in which patients are offered the opportunity to participate. Treatment is never contingent on participation in any project, but we believe that our involvement in research and teaching helps us provide evidence-based, state-of-the-art care.

Addiction Recovery Program Faculty and Staff: 

Carol Garner, MD, Co-Medical Director
Erica Veguilla, MD, Co-Medical Director
Barbara Peary, BSN, MM, Nursing Director
Rick Klaich, LICSW, Manager of Counseling
Madeline Spinosa, NP

ARP Inpatient Detoxification Unit:

Caitlin Fitzgerald, Administrative Secretary

ARP Dual Diagnosis Day Treatment:

Maria Perrotti, PsyD, LMHC, LADC-1, Coordinator
Karen Campbell, Administrative Secretary

ARP Evening Treatment Program:

Carl Stewart, M.Ed., Coordinator
Karen Campbell, Administrative Secretary