Topics discussed in this episode
🟣Benefits of bringing a business background to addiction treatment
🟣Continuum of care located 10 minutes from some of the best ski resorts in the world!
🟣Being hired as Executive Director of Wasatch Recovery, founded by two brothers in real estate
🟣Hiring decisions to cherry-pick therapists with a variety of specialties like EMDR, DBT, CBT, 12-Steps, Rational Recovery
🟣Encouraging going from residential to onsite sober living to create a stronger bridge to recovery
🟣Foundation to pay scholarships for sober living
🟣Treatment that lasts a year for 80 clients
🟣Weekly family night with therapists teaching topics like boundaries, communication, and unconditional love.
🟣If you're here for longer than 15 minutes, you're part of the Wasatch family
🟣Importance of admin team who build rapport
🟣Admissions drug tests show an increase in fentanyl in other drugs, including cannabis
🟣Fentanyl and some new additives require detox to be managed in hospital
🟣 Utah's approach to Narcan and problem of low-cost pills
🟣Community and monthly meetings with leaders of treatment centers in Utah to collaborate
🟣Insurance body brokering legislation in Utah
🟣Meet a person at their worst but get to see this beautiful person.
🟣President of The Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals (AUSAP) NAADAC
🟣How the Substance Abuse Counselor course expanded from the University of Utah throughout the state
🟣Shortage of mental health professionals
🟣Harm reduction as unconditional love
🟣Never lose hope
Addiction Podcast Guest:
Corey Markisich, Executive Director
Wasatch Recovery
🔗 wasatchrecovery.com
🔗LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-markisich-7b371045/
✉️corey@wasatchrecovery.com
📞801-901-0024
Guest location: Utah
Addiction Podcast Host:
Chris Langley, Co-Founder | Addiction Recovery Place
