Services

SSTAR of Rhode Island

Inpatient Psychiatric and Medical Detoxification Services

SSTAR of Rhode Island is the designated public detoxification provider for the state of Rhode Island. At our North Kingstown location, we provide safe, competent detoxification services administered by physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Program services include: individual counseling and case management, group counseling, substance abuse-related education and aftercare assessment, planning and referral. Many clients come to us with housing, legal, medical, vocational and other social service needs that we attempt to meet or to link to wraparound services.

SSTAR-RI has been serving in Rhode Island since 1992, with the inception of the SSTARbirth residential program. Medical detoxification services, begun in 1995, serves approximately 2,500 individuals per year. With the integration of medical detoxification and inpatient psychiatric care in 2007, it is projected that approximately 702 individuals will receive inpatient psychiatric care in the first year of the new two-year grant. The integrated treatment approach should reduce the rate of recidivism and improve patient outcomes.

The biggest challenge we face is to meet the most needs for the greatest number of those in need possible. We are constantly faced with great demand coupled with great budgetary and treatment insufficiency in our state. To provide quality and adequate care is both our vision and our mission.

Our new Dual Diagnoses Acute Stabilization [DDAS] unit became fully operative November 2007 in collaboration with Northern Rhode Island Community Services. This 20-bed inpatient unit provides integrated substance abuse and psychiatric care for individuals who are either diverted from statewide Emergency Departments or who are stepped-down from acute inpatient psychiatric care.