PATIENT HANDBOOK

Welcome to Soar

SOAR is an outpatient substance abuse treatment program specializing in methadone treatment for opiate addiction. Methadone maintenance combined with a comprehensive therapy program is the most successful treatment approach for heroin and/or other opiate addiction. Thousands of methadone patients have resumed meaningful lives while in treatment on methadone.

Here at SOAR, you will find a staff of caring and knowledgeable people dedicated to helping patients achieve a productive life free from the use of illicit drugs. If you are committed to regaining control of your life, SOAR can work for you. We invite you to stay and experience the joy of recovery.

This is a handbook to explain the important parts of your treatment program, what you can expect of us, and what we expect of you. Please read this handbook carefully and keep it throughout your treatment. It will be discussed in orientation groups.

In addition to what we do here, SOAR is actively involved in local community activities and has established strong ties with local leaders. From this has developed a network that has allowed SOAR to help people better in re-entering their communities after leaving treatment. Examples of this are instances where SOAR has been able to assist former patients in obtaining employment and/or safe places to live after treatment was completed. In 2012 we had a number of patients graduate college with at least 2 of them planning to enter the drug and alcohol field in the future. SOAR also goes out into the community and offers to talk at businesses, schools, churches and local community groups.



What this means is that you are coming into a program that cares about both our patients and our local community. Your treatment experience here can and will be a good one as long as you are ready and willing to both listen and follow direction from those who have the experience and knowledge to help you learn how to make better decisions in your life. Can recovery be that simple? Yes, it can!