Addiction and mental health care from one licensed team
Which dual diagnosis program treats Hollywood residents?
One licensed team in Pompano Beach, about 20 miles north of Hollywood, treats the drinking or drug use and the mental health side together, as a single dual diagnosis plan.
Whether you live in with us or come in for a few hours a week, the addiction shares one plan with whatever you carry alongside it, be that depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder or trauma.
A psychiatric assessment is part of every admission, and admissions confirms your benefits before you hang up.
How soon can you begin dual diagnosis care from Hollywood?
Inside a few days, or today when detox has to come first and a bed is open.
Admissions asks about the substances, any diagnosis a doctor gave you or symptoms you live with, your current prescriptions and earlier treatment. Before you hang up, admissions books your psychiatric assessment, and a psychiatric provider goes over your medication on day one.
From Memorial Regional’s campus on Johnson Street, the drive to us runs about 20 miles up I-95, roughly half an hour outside rush hour. A relative drives you in, or admissions helps you plan the trip.
Do you need dual diagnosis care or addiction treatment alone?
Choose dual diagnosis care when alcohol or drugs are your way through low mood, panic, trauma or mood swings, or when your mental health keeps pulling you back to using.
You can call without a formal diagnosis. Watch for these signs:
- Sleep or calm only comes after a drink or a pill
- Your last relapse came when your mood crashed
- Your family puts your anxiety or low mood down to the drinking, and no one treats it on its own
- You quit a medication a doctor prescribed for your mental health
- Alcohol or drugs were part of a Baker Act hold or another mental health crisis
At intake, psychiatric staff assess you and set the order of treatment.
Which dual diagnosis approach works best?
Integrated care, where the same people treat both conditions side by side on a single plan.
Treating one and parking the other leaves the parked one free to pull you back. Here, your psychiatric provider, therapist and nurses meet as one group about you, settle medication and therapy between them, and adjust both as you change. Every level of care in our main dual diagnosis treatment program runs on this model.
Which dual diagnosis services help Hollywood families?
One Dual Diagnosis Team and Plan
Your psychiatric provider, therapist and nurses work one plan, so nothing pulls in two directions.
Psychiatric Assessment at Intake
Psychiatric staff assess you during admission, and your medication review starts on day one.
Dual Diagnosis Care After a Baker Act Hold
When a hold at a Broward receiving facility ends, we set your start date on the first call.
Mood and Craving Medication Together
One team adjusts antidepressants or mood stabilizers alongside naltrexone, acamprosate or buprenorphine.
Dual Diagnosis at Every Level of Care
Whichever level you are in, from detox through live-in care to PHP and IOP, your team treats both conditions together.
Dual Diagnosis Coverage Checked by Phone
Admissions confirms your Broward plan's benefits for co-occurring care before you start.
How do you get to dual diagnosis care from Hollywood?
Driving to Dual Diagnosis Treatment
From Johnson Street or downtown Hollywood, I-95 north to Atlantic Boulevard runs about 20 miles and about 30 minutes off-peak.
Leaving Memorial Regional for Treatment
Before a Baker Act discharge, you or the hospital team calls admissions, and we line up your start.
Tri-Rail to Dual Diagnosis Follow-Up
From Sheridan Street station, four stops bring you to Pompano Beach for psychiatric follow-up.
Which mental health conditions sit in our dual diagnosis care?
We treat depression, anxiety and panic, PTSD and trauma, grief and bipolar disorder, each paired with an alcohol or drug addiction.
Every condition shifts the plan a little. You start trauma work once you feel steady, and grief work when you are ready to talk about the loss. Bipolar disorder means mood-stabilizing medication with close follow-up from your psychiatric provider. Your team waits for withdrawal to pass before deciding whether anxiety needs its own medication.
What happens in dual diagnosis care after a Baker Act?
You start the same week. As the Baker Act hold wraps up, you or the discharge team at the hospital phones admissions, and admissions fixes your start date before the call ends.
Under the Baker Act, section 394.463 of the Florida Statutes, an involuntary examination at a receiving facility runs no longer than 72 hours. In Hollywood, Memorial Regional Hospital on Johnson Street is a Baker Act receiving facility with a 51-bed adult unit. The hold steadies the crisis. It does not treat the drinking or drug use underneath it.
Memorial Regional’s psychiatric emergency department at 3501 Johnson Street stays open around the clock, so a crisis at 2am still ends with a discharge team you can hand our number to.
Starting dual diagnosis care the same week closes that gap. Phone admissions from your hospital room or on your first day home, and admissions checks your insurance while you are on the line.
What level of dual diagnosis care fits your symptoms?
How severe your mental health symptoms run decides your level, along with how much you drink or use.
A crisis, or a body that needs detox, means you start with psychiatric stabilization and medical detox. From there you move into a live-in stay, and each day of it treats both conditions. Once symptoms settle, a partial hospitalization program keeps psychiatric contact near-daily while you sleep at home. If you need upkeep more than repair, IOP runs around your working hours in Hollywood.
Can you keep a Hollywood job during dual diagnosis care?
Yes, in PHP, IOP and outpatient care. Psychiatric visits and therapy fit inside your program hours, and FMLA leave covers a live-in stay.
Your psychiatric provider sees you during the program day, so a medication check never costs you a separate morning off work. For a live-in stay, your case manager fills in the leave forms, and your employer reads only what those forms require.
Dual Diagnosis for Hollywood Residents
We admit you from anywhere in Hollywood after a crisis or before one.
Licensed Psychiatric and Addiction Care
A psychiatric provider and licensed therapists share your treatment plan.
Dual Diagnosis Aftercare That Continues
Your psychiatric provider stays with you through every outpatient step-down.
Which therapy and medication plan fits co-occurring disorders?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and trauma-focused work, while a single team prescribes your psychiatric and anti-craving medication side by side.
CBT targets the thought loops that feed low mood, worry and using. DBT teaches you to ride out strong emotions without a drink. Trauma-focused therapy begins on PTSD when you feel steady.
When naltrexone, acamprosate or buprenorphine fits your case, it runs beside your antidepressant, mood stabilizer or anti-anxiety prescription, and one prescribing team makes sure none of them clash. MedlinePlus guidance from the National Library of Medicine pairs therapy with medication the same way.
Who sees you in dual diagnosis treatment each week?
Five roles: your psychiatric provider, your licensed therapist, your case manager, the nurses, and a prescriber focused on your withdrawal and cravings.
The psychiatric provider owns your diagnosis and psychiatric medication. Your therapist takes your individual sessions and groups. Nurses track how you feel and what you take.
Your case manager looks after work, family and discharge. They review your plan together weekly, so you never relay messages from one to another.
Does your Broward insurance plan cover dual diagnosis treatment?
Yes. Most Broward plans pay for co-occurring care, among them Florida Blue, other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, Aetna and Cigna.
Insurers see treating addiction and mental health together as medically necessary care and approve it one level of care at a time. Admissions runs your benefits for free, tells you whether we sit in-network, and puts your share in dollars before day one, out-of-network gap included.
Baker or Marchman Act: which gets your loved one treatment?
Baker Act for a mental health crisis, Marchman Act for drinking or drug use that has put someone in danger. Admissions helps you decide which applies.
If you live in Hollywood, you file either petition in person at the Broward Clerk’s mental health office in the Central Courthouse West Building, 201 SE 6th Street in Fort Lauderdale. The South Regional Courthouse on Hollywood Boulevard does not take them. The Clerk’s mental health office keeps weekday hours, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and charges no fee for either petition. Our intervention services team helps you plan the conversation first, and admission happens on the day your loved one agrees.
What does aftercare look like after dual diagnosis treatment?
Same team, same psychiatric provider, stepping down one level at a time, with a plan that tracks your mood next to your cravings.
Before discharge, your case manager sets your outpatient days, books psychiatric follow-up, lines up your prescriptions and hands you your relapse-prevention plan in writing. Tri-Rail from Sheridan Street station reaches Pompano Beach in four stops if you prefer not to drive to follow-up visits. The plan lists the early signs that your mood is slipping and who you call when you notice them. Alumni groups stay open to you once treatment ends.
Heading in from the south, or from downtown Fort Lauderdale instead? Start with dual diagnosis treatment in Miami or dual diagnosis treatment in Fort Lauderdale.
Still weighing levels of care? Read outpatient rehab in Hollywood.
How do you begin dual diagnosis treatment from Hollywood today?
Call admissions now. We verify your insurance on the call and tell you what is covered, what is open this week and which program you qualify for.
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