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A Special Advertising Section of Baltimore Sun Media Group | Sunday, September 15, 2024
A Comprehensive Medical
Approach to Addiction
The Center for Addiction Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center
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laying a pivotal role in the
battle against substance abuse
and providing hope for Marylanders, The Center for Addiction
Medicine (CAM), located on the
University of Maryland Medical
Center (UMMC) Midtown Campus,
is one of only a few programs in the
city open seven days a week, including holidays, to provide affordable,
available and accessible outpatient
treatment for substance use disorders to about 1,000 residents of Baltimore and the surrounding commu-
nities each year.
CAM offers an ambulatory clinic
and inpatient chemical dependency service. “In the clinic we have an
opioid treatment program, where we
offer buprenorphine and methadone
maintenance, a Medication-Assisted
Treatment program, where we provide office-based visits for buprenorphine prescriptions, and a medically
supervised withdrawal management
program where we detox patients
from benzodiazepines, alcohol, and/
or opioids,” says Ellenor Chance,
CRNP, clinical program manager at
CAM. Chance explains that the inpatient chemical dependency service
admits high risk patients for alcohol
and benzodiazepine medically supervised withdrawal.
CAM is one of the only programs
in the state that offers an ambulatory withdrawal management for alcohol use disorders. Carson Herbert,
LCSW, CAM’s supervisor of counseling services, says, “If somebody starts
an ambulatory detox and there are
complications or medical concerns,
we can admit the patient to the hospital under the chemical-dependent
service.”
CAM also offers long acting injectable medications for alcohol
and opioid use disorder to patients
prior to discharge from inpatient
detox and in the ambulatory clinic.
“These medications are administered
monthly unlike other medication assisted treatments that are taken daily.
These monthly injections help with
withdrawal symptoms and cravings,
Medical approach
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