Substance Use Treatment in Rhode Island

As Rhode Island’s largest health system, Brown University Health offers a range of addiction medicine services, from inpatient acute care to long term recovery support services. Our clinical teams strive to provide a patient centered environment to explore, initiate, and sustain a patient’s journey towards recovery.  

Rhode Island Hospital Inpatient Consultation Services 

The Addiction Medicine Consult Liaison Service at Rhode Island Hospital aids patients struggling with alcohol or drug use along the path of recovery by enhancing their motivation to make choices for the betterment of their physical and emotional health.

Consisting of physicians and independent clinical social workers that specialize in the treatment of substance use disorders, the service assists patients—any individual admitted to Rhode Island Hospital for primary medical, surgical, and trauma related conditions—with interventions inclusive of empathic support, education on condition, symptom, and medications for substance use disorders, as well as guidance in the navigation of available treatments both within our system as well as outside of it.  

The Consult Liaison Service helps patients:

• Clarify their understanding of their alcohol or drug use
• Identify strategies to aid in any decided change in their alcohol or drug use pattern
• Access treatment recommendations, including initiation of medications and connections to community resources

Brown University Health Partial Hospital Program

The Adult Partial Hospital Program provides intensive, short-term behavioral health treatment. The program features programming tailored to patients dealing with co-occurring substance use and mental health issues.

Patients participate in multiple groups per day, as well as speak to a therapist and a psychiatrist for individual sessions every day.

Patients can self-refer to this program. For more information please call 401-444-3748.

Learn more about the Brown University Health Partial Hospital Program

Gateway Healthcare Substance Use Disorder Programs 

Gateway Healthcare—Rhode Island’s largest nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider—offers a range of treatments for substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders. 

Gateway programs include:

• Gateway Substance Use Treatment Services
• Adolescent Substance Use and Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders
• New Beginnings - Intensive Outpatient Substance Use Therapy Services

Gateway has numerous locations across Rhode Island and serves adults and children of all cultural and economic backgrounds.  

Learn more about substance use disorders treatment at Gateway

Bradley Hospital Co-Occurring Disorders Programs 

Bradley Hospital’s co-occurring disorders programs are designed to help adolescents who struggle with mental health and substance use issues and their families. Because these programs are offered on an outpatient basis, students may attend while they continue their schooling and put their new skills to work in their daily lives. 

• The Wave Clinic provides evidence-based treatments including motivational enhancement therapy and cognitive behavioral therapies tailored to meet the needs of each youth and his or her family. For more information or to make an appointment, call 401-432-1119.
• The Vista program provides more intensive care than is typical to adolescents who struggle with a wide variety of mental health issues. The program runs after school and provides three hours of comprehensive care three days per week. For more information or to make an appointment, call 401-432-1695.