The ABS, Inc. SA Intensive Outpatient Program (SAIOP) means structured individual and group addiction activities and services that are provided at an outpatient program designed to assist adult and adolescent consumers to begin recovery and learn skills for recovery maintenance. The ABS, Inc. SAIOP program is offered at least 3 hours a day, 3 days a week.
SAIOP services shall include a structured program consisting of, but not limited to, the following services:
- Individual counseling and support;
- Group counseling and support;
- Family counseling, training or support;
- Biochemical assays to identify recent drug use (e.g., urine drug screens);
- Strategies for relapse prevention to include community and social support systems in treatment;
- Life skills;
- Crisis contingency planning;
- Disease Management; and
- Treatment support activities that have been adapted or specifically designed for persons with physical disabilities, or persons with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse/dependence or mental retardation/developmental disability and substance abuse/dependence.