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A&E’s Emmy Award winning television show; Intervention filmed at Town & Country Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Recovery Unit (ARU)
July 27, 2010
On Monday July 26th at 9:00 PM Eastern. A&E’s television show, Intervention aired with “the story of Amber.” Town & Country Hospital’s ARU was selected to provide Amber detox treatment on her journey to recovery. Town & Country Hospital’s ARU is one of the few hospitals in the country that provide a hospital based medically supervised detox program. www.townandcountryhospital.com
Detox is a very important step and often a difficult obstacle for patients to go through as they seek help for their addiction. The detox program at Town and Country Hospital includes a personalized assessment, medication management to control the symptoms of detox, addiction education, group therapy, family support groups, and discharge referral planning. The length of the detox at the ARU is between 3-5 days depending on the patients overall condition. After detox, recommendations are made for continued inpatient or outpatient treatment.
“Patients like Amber are very common to us on the ARU. Because we are a hospital based unit, we can accept people with the most severe cases of addiction from all drugs, including alcohol.” We also admit patients that other programs are not willing to accept due to the fact that they have other medical conditions that make the detox process a higher level of risk.” States Dr. Michael Cromer; Medical Director for Town & Country Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Recovery Unit.
Dr. Cromer is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Board Certified in Addiction Medicine, therefore, he is capable of addressing any acute medical condition that might arise in an efficient manner with the trained staff and facilities at Town & Country Hospital.
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