Topics discussed in this episode
🟣Leaving a career in finance to overcome addiction and discover purpose working in addiction treatment
🟣Working his way from the bottom as a case manager at a state-funded detox to CEO at Granite Recovery Centers
🟣Driving better outcomes with a full continuum of care instead of "spin dry cycles"
🟣Getting better outcomes for the homeless and/or jobless
🟣Employee success stories from recovery to leadership
🟣Keeping clients in a bubble of safety
🟣Healthy way to reconnect families and define expectations
🟣Same day admissions with transportation if needed
🟣New Hampshire's first residential primary mental health program at Canterbury Behavioral Health
🟣Good community partners
🟣Medicaid work, less profit but the right thing to do
🟣Staffing challenges and telehealth reducing the number of clinician candidates
🟣Internships with local colleges for nurses
🟣How New Hampshire has handled the opiate and fentanyl crisis
🟣For Americans aged 18-45, the leading cause of death is fentanyl overdose
🟣How and why stigma has changed in 20 years
🟣More women in treatment than men
🟣Harm reduction: making lives functional with MAT
Addiction Podcast Guest:
Eric Ekberg
CEO Granite Recovery Centers
🔗https://www.graniterecoverycenters.com/
🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericekberg/
Guest locations: New Hampshire + Maine
📍Green Mountain Treatment Center | Effingham, NH
(detox, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment)
📍Granite House | Derry, NH
(detox and residential 38 beds, mostly Medicaid)
📍Canterbury Behavioral Health | Canterbury, NH
(mental health disorders and co-occurring SUD with inpatient, outpatients, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient care)
📍New Freedom Academy | Salem, NH
(outpatients, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient)
📍Liberty Bay Recovery Center | Portland, ME
(detox, inpatient, intensive outpatient)
Addiction Podcast Host:
Chris Langley, Co-Founder | Addiction Recovery Place
