Primary Prevention
The prevention program is designed to reduce or eliminate factors that increase the probability of an individual’s involvement with alcohol and other drugs. This goal is accomplished through comprehensive planned activities delivered to schools, churches and community groups. The Community Action for a Safer Tomorrow (CAST) coalition is also a current prevention program.
CBT: Community Based Treatment
This program provides counseling services to individuals and families in the least restrictive setting. CBT provides an array of services to address the specific problems in a variety of modalities that includes: group, individual and family counseling.
YAS: Youth & Adolescent Counseling
YAS is a joint effort of The ALPHA Behavioral Health Center and community agencies working together with schools and parents to help troubled youth. The YAS service offers alternatives to those students who are experiencing various problems: academic, social, emotional or behavioral in nature. The goal of YAS is to help students stay in school.
ADSAP: Alcohol & Drug Safety Action Program
ADSAP is designed to increase safety on our roads by helping persons make positive changes to reduce their risk of getting another DUI/DWI offense. This program is offered under the direction of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety and meets all the South Carolina state requirements.
CDV: Criminal Domestic Violence Program
A certified approved program through the South Carolina Department of Social Services, this program runs for 26 weeks and provides intervention to perpetrators of domestic violence.
EAP: Employee Assistance Program
The EAP provides education and counseling services for employees whose job performance is adversely affected by alcohol and other drug abuse and/or personal problems. Family members can also receive help through the EAP or can participate in the employees’ counseling program.
OBI: Offender-Based Intervention
Assists persons involved with the Adult Criminal and Juvenile Justice systems to reduce alcohol and other drug use and/or risk behaviors and to promote positive behavioral change.
PTI: Pre-Trial Intervention
Participants are referred from the Solicitor’s Office and upon successful completion, their criminal record will be expunged and they will not stand trial. The goal of PTI is to develop lifestyle risk reduction.
Drug Court
A criminal justice diversion program that offers an alternative for those person whose crimes are the result of their drug addiction. This program helps keep nonviolent offenders out of prison and puts them back on a productive path. Participants in this program are normally involved in treatment for at least one year.
Parenting Classes
Aimed to teach parents how to deal with each other while protecting their children and also to make parents realize how their actions can affect their children. In some cases, feuding parents are required to attend parenting classes to attempt to resolve (or prevent) problems.
Alcohol & Other Drug Testing
A full range of alcohol and drug testing as well as training services are provided to employers and agencies to support a drug-free workplace. We offer US DOT and non-DOT testing variables to meet the consumer’s ever changing needs.
Urine Screening
Urine drug screening is still the most widely used and most economical form of testing. Urine screens will test from 1-10 drugs and detection window varies based on the drug. Drugs may be detected in the system from only hours of use up to 3-4 weeks (depending on the drug). Urine drug testing is the most widely used method and currently yields the quickest results. Our tests are available in both instant, and lab-based formats.
Hair Analysis
Hair analysis has gained popularity as the screening method that covers the most “history” of drug usage. While hair testing yields usage up to 90 days, it is not recommended for monitoring drug use within the last 14 days since use (due to the inability to cut “new” hair that may hold the drug metabolite). Hair analysis is far more effective than urine testing in identifying low-level drug use over an extended period of time.
The ALPHA Behavioral Health Center provides prevention, intervention and treatment services. However, not all counties provide the same services. Please contact the office nearest to you for more details and to schedule an appointment.
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
-Henry Ford