{"id":10919,"date":"2017-04-17T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/04\/17\/home-based-drug-treatment-program-costs-less-and-works\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T18:47:00","slug":"home-based-drug-treatment-program-costs-less-and-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/home-based-drug-treatment-program-costs-less-and-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-Based Drug Treatment Program Costs Less And Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Hannah Berkowitz in her parents’ home in West Hartford, Conn. Getting intensive in-home drug treatment is what ultimately helped her get back on track, she and her mom agree.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Berkowitz is 20 years old. When she was a senior in high school her life flew off the rails.<\/p>\n

She was getting high on whatever drugs she could get her hands on. She was suicidal. Berkowitz moved into a therapeutic boarding school to get sober, but could only stay sober while she was on campus during the week.<\/p>\n

“I’d come home and try to stay sober really hard \u2014 really, really hard,” says Berkowitz. “Sometimes I’d make it through the weekend, and sometimes I just couldn’t make it. It was white-knuckling it, just holding on.”<\/p>\n

The transition back home always triggered a relapse for Berkowitz.<\/p>\n

“I thought it was just my fault and there was no hope,” she says.<\/p>\n

No hope \u2014 but Berkowitz did have luck. She had private health insurance and she lived in Connecticut, where a startup company, Aware Recovery Care<\/a>, had begun treating clients in the very environment where Hannah was struggling to stay sober: her home.<\/p>\n

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Treating addiction is a growing business, but a lot of the treatment that’s available is expensive and patients often relapse. Fortunately, there is a way to help some people pay less for better results, says Matt Eacott<\/a>, vice president of Aware Recovery Care.<\/p>\n