One licensed team for addiction and mental health care
Which dual diagnosis program treats West Palm Beach residents?
If you live in West Palm Beach and a mental health condition rides along with your drinking or drug use, our licensed Pompano Beach facility, about 37 miles south, treats both at once with a single team.
Your psychiatric provider, therapist and medical staff share a single plan, carried from detox all the way to outpatient care.
Admissions checks your benefits on the first call and sets your start date, including the week a hospital hold ends.
How soon after a Baker Act hold does treatment start?
In the week your hold ends. If you need detox and we have a bed, that same day.
Florida’s Baker Act lets a receiving facility keep someone for as long as 72 hours under an involuntary examination. In West Palm Beach those include JFK North and NeuroBehavioral Hospital, which runs its Baker Act unit on 45th Street in the old mental health wing of St. Mary’s Medical Center.
The hold calms the emergency. When alcohol or drugs played a part, you still carry the addiction home. Phone admissions from your room, or ask the discharge team to phone, and we fix your start date before you leave.
Who needs dual diagnosis treatment?
You do when drinking or using is your way of handling low mood, worry, trauma or mood swings, or when each one keeps setting the other off.
Signs that point this way:
- Sleep, calm or going numb only comes after a drink or a pill
- Every sober stretch ends the week your mood drops
- A doctor treated your depression and nobody touched the drinking
- A program treated your drinking and nobody asked about the panic
You can call without a diagnosis in hand. At intake, a psychiatric assessment pins down what is happening and which problem your team treats first.
Which dual diagnosis approach do West Palm Beach residents need?
Integrated care: the addiction and the mental health condition sit on one plan, with one team treating both in the same weeks.
Treat them in turns and the one left waiting drags you back down. Each week your medical staff, therapist and psychiatric provider meet about you, settle your medication and therapy as a group, and rework both whenever you change. The same method runs through every level of care in our main dual diagnosis treatment program.
Which dual diagnosis benefits matter to West Palm Beach families?
Treatment Starting the Week a Hold Ends
Begin the week a Baker Act hold at JFK North or on 45th Street finishes.
A Psychiatric Intake on Day One
Your psychiatric provider meets you at intake and reviews every prescription you bring.
One Team for Your Mood and Your Recovery
Psychiatric provider, therapist and nurses sit down about you every week.
Dual Diagnosis Care From Detox to IOP
Your level depends on how severe your symptoms run, and it changes as they ease.
Trauma Therapy Timed to Your Recovery
Trauma-focused sessions start once sleep, mood and cravings have settled.
Mental Health Insurance Benefits Checked Too
Admissions verifies the addiction and the mental health sides of your plan in one call.
Which way to dual diagnosis care suits West Palm Beach?
Dual Diagnosis Care After a Hospital Hold
Ring admissions from your room at a West Palm Beach receiving facility, or on your first day home.
Dual Diagnosis Care and the Courthouse
A petition filed at the Main Courthouse on North Dixie Highway gets its emergency hearing there. Call us before that date.
Psychiatric Follow-Up Care From Home
Come back down I-95, or ride Tri-Rail from Tamarind Avenue, for your medication reviews.
Which conditions sit inside our dual diagnosis program?
Depression, anxiety in its generalized and social forms, panic disorder, PTSD and trauma, bipolar disorder and grief, each next to alcohol or drug addiction.
Every one of them shapes the plan differently. Trauma work starts only once your sleep, mood and cravings settle. Bipolar disorder means mood-stabilizing medication your psychiatric provider keeps a close eye on. Anxiety eases as withdrawal passes, so your team gives it time before reaching for a prescription.
Which level of dual diagnosis care fits you?
Your team sets it by how severe the mental health symptoms run, alongside how heavily you drink or use.
In crisis or in withdrawal, you start in medical detox while psychiatric staff steady you, then move to a live-in stay and work on both conditions every day. Steadier symptoms point to PHP, with psychiatric staff nearly every day.
From 37 miles away, PHP five days a week works best from a certified sober home near the program. When your mental health holds and needs upkeep, IOP fits around a job back home. Your level moves as you do. A rough week at IOP brings you back up to PHP with the same psychiatric provider, and a steady month brings you down.
What if a court orders dual diagnosis treatment?
Call admissions the day the order arrives, and we go through what it asks for and which program fits.
In Palm Beach County, the 15th Judicial Circuit hears Baker Act and Marchman Act cases. A petition filed at the Main Courthouse on North Dixie Highway in downtown West Palm Beach gets its emergency hearing in that building. One law deals with a psychiatric emergency. The Marchman Act deals with drinking or drug use that has left a person in danger.
When both apply, dual diagnosis care answers each one. Admissions walks you or your family through it ahead of the hearing.
Which therapies and medications does our dual diagnosis team use?
CBT, DBT and therapy focused on trauma, plus psychiatric and craving medication that one team prescribes together.
CBT goes after the thought patterns behind using, low mood and worry. With DBT you learn what to do in the moments feelings spike. Trauma-focused therapy takes on PTSD once you are steady. Antidepressants, mood stabilizers or anti-anxiety medication come from your psychiatric provider, written alongside naltrexone, acamprosate or buprenorphine, so no prescription fights another. MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine’s addiction guide, pairs counseling with medication in treating addiction.
Dual Diagnosis for West Palm Beach
One integrated team for every West Palm Beach neighborhood and the rest of Palm Beach County.
Licensed Psychiatric and Addiction Care
Your therapists, nurses and psychiatric staff all work from the same plan.
Psychiatric Aftercare Past Discharge
Your psychiatric provider keeps seeing you once the program days stop.
Which licensed clinicians run your dual diagnosis care?
One team of five roles: your case manager, nurses, a prescriber for withdrawal and cravings, a licensed therapist and a psychiatric provider.
Diagnosis and medication sit with your psychiatric provider. One-to-one sessions and groups sit with your therapist. Nurses check on you and on each dose. Work, family and the plan for home fall to your case manager. Because the whole team meets about you weekly, you never play messenger between them.
Does insurance cover dual diagnosis care in West Palm Beach?
Yes. Florida Blue and the other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare pay for integrated treatment as medically necessary care.
Your share turns on your deductible, whether we sit in-network with your plan, and your coinsurance. Admissions verifies the addiction benefits and the mental health benefits on the first call, since some plans split them. Without insurance, you hear the self-pay rate.
Psychiatric visits after you step down bill under the same plan. Admissions tells you the copay for those follow-ups too, so the cost of the drive south is the only surprise left, and you already know that one: about 37 miles each way.
How long is the drive for psychiatric follow-up care?
About 50 minutes each way down I-95, or a Tri-Rail ride from the Tamarind Avenue station, for each medication review.
Your psychiatric provider keeps seeing you after you step down, so the person who knows your medication is the one adjusting it. Visits spread out as you steady. Studying at Palm Beach Atlantic University? Your team books follow-ups around your lectures.
What happens back home after dual diagnosis care?
Your team and your psychiatric provider stay with you through each step down, and on your last day you take home a single written plan that covers both conditions.
Discharge planning starts in week one. The plan lists warning signs for your mood next to the ones for cravings, who to ring, and which appointments come next. Our alumni program holds a place for you, and family sessions carry on as you settle back home in West Palm Beach.
Can your family join dual diagnosis care from West Palm?
Yes. Family sessions run through every level of care, and your family drives down from West Palm Beach for them, about 50 minutes each way.
When depression or anxiety sits under the drinking, your family has lived with both, and they carry questions about each. In family sessions your therapist explains your plan, what the warning signs look like at home, and how they answer a bad night without a fight.
If you give consent, your psychiatric provider talks your family through your medication too. What you share with them stays your choice, and HIPAA covers everything else you tell your team.
Families further south in Palm Beach County can read dual diagnosis treatment in Delray Beach and dual diagnosis treatment in Boca Raton.
From West Palm Beach, the other options are PHP in West Palm Beach and outpatient rehab in West Palm Beach.
Can West Palm Beach residents start dual diagnosis care 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. If a hospital hold ends this week, give us the date and we plan your first day around it.
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