The Southworth Associates Monitoring (SAM) is a program to facilitate recovery for individuals who have completed treatment for substance abuse. The SAM program monitors the after-care program recommended by the treatment facility, and can often incorporate recommendations by the client’s family. By monitoring a client’s addiction recovery, the SAM program can help alleviate recovery concerns. If a client becomes non-compliant, the appropriate sources (family members, etc.) will then be notified.
The SAM program, while based on our other professional programs, is for those clients who are not covered by other recovery monitoring programs. Southworth Associates will not monitor those individuals who should be covered under other programs, such as doctors covered under another state’s Physicians Program.
The most typical SAM Contract requirements for after-care monitoring are Urinalysis (UA) testing, attendance at 12 Step meetings, and meetings with a 12 Step sponsor. Many clients also attend aftercare/outpatient services or individual therapy. The SAM program will not create a SAM Contract that monitors fewer/less stringent requirements than what is recommended by the treatment facility.
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1. Who can be monitored under the SAM program?
Anyone in a addiction recovery program for substance abuse who is not covered under another monitoring program is eligible for the SAM program. Clients range from high school students to engineers.
2. How do we get our family member into the SAM program?
Have the potential client contact us at 1-800-386-1695. We will need a Release of Information to contact their addiction treatment center and get their after-care recommendations.
3. How long does it take to get into the SAM program?
The whole process can take 2-3 weeks depending on several factors. Once we get the Release of Information form and some contact information we will make the necessary arrangements for UA testing. We will contact the treatment center and put together a SAM Contract during this initial set-up time. If Southworth Associates is contacted before the second-to-last week of treatment, we can usually have a new client entered into the SAM program the day they discharge.
4. What is the cost of the SAM program?
The cost of recovery monitoring is variable depending on the length of the billing cycle and in some cases the treatment center pays for all or part of the SAM program. Normally there is a one time set-up charge and clients are billed in yearly increments. There are additional charges for drug testing, treatment, counselor sessions, etc. that are not part of the SAM program billing.
Please feel free to contact Southworth Associates at 1-800-386-1695 to discuss the SAM addiction recovery program.
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