The ABS, Inc. SA Comprehensive Outpatient Treatment (SACOT) Program means a periodic service that is a time-limited, multi-faceted approach treatment service for adults who require structure and support to achieve and sustain recovery. The SACOT Program is a service emphasizing reduction in use and abuse of substances and/or continued abstinence, the negative consequences of substance abuse, development of social support network and necessary lifestyle changes, educational skills, vocational skills leading to work activity by reducing substance abuse as a barrier to employment, social and interpersonal skills, improved family functioning, the understanding of addictive disease, and the continued commitment to a recovery and maintenance program. These services are provided during day and evening hours to enable individuals to maintain residence in their community, continue to work or go to school, and to be a part of their family life. The following types of services are included in the SACOT Program:
- 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.
Alternative Behavioral Solutions, Inc. will operate at 4 hours of scheduled services per day, 5 days per week. The ABS, Inc. SACOT program will conduct random drug screenings and uses the results of these tests as part of a comprehensive assessment.