Longbranch Recovery RTC & IOP
Longbranch Recovery is a system of addiction treatment programs in several locations within the Greater New Orleans Area. Longbranch provides residential treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, and long-term care in a residential setting (for veterans). The staff is highly credentialled starting with medical direction by Smita Prasad, MD, MPH and including RN, LPN, MSW/LCSW, MA/MS/LPC and culinary and exercise physiology staff and peer support specialists. All programs are accredited by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Patient populations include those with private insurance, self-pay, veterans, active-duty military, and Medicaid (IOP only). There is a strong family treatment component at all levels of care.
Residential treatment is provided at 21516 Highway 36 in Abita Springs, LA 70420 and provided residential medically monitored detoxification (ASAM Level 3.7) and medically supervised residential treatment (ASAM Level 3.5).
Veterans extended care is for program completers who are veterans and is at 80431 Ogden Road, Covington, LA 70435 and provides long term residential treatment for veterans (ASAM Level 3.1).
Intensive outpatient treatment is provided at locations in Covington – 201 Holiday Blvd, #600, Covington, LA 70433 - and in Metairie – 2329 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, LA 70001. These programs are medically directed and are ASAM Level 2.5.
Addiction Medicine trainees practice at the above sites with the supervision of Dr. Prasad.
NOLA Detox
NOLA Detox is a system of addiction treatment services located throughout the New Orleans area, with the primary location at 4201 Woodland Dr. New Orleans LA 70131. Tulane provides addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry services through the efforts of Lee Michals, MD and the participation of addiction medicine Fellows. The facility is a comprehensive treatment effort that includes inpatient detoxification, inpatient treatment, residential treatment, sober living, and outpatient addiction treatment services. Programming is comprehensive and multidisciplinary and includes RN, LPN, LPC, and LCSW professionals as well as peer support specialists and administration and support staff.
Fellows provide addiction medicine services under the supervision of doctor Michals primarily at the Woodland Dr. location.
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System (SLVHCS)
The VA provides many options for Veterans seeking treatment for substance use problems ranging from unhealthy alcohol use to life-threatening addiction. The services we offer you depend on your specific needs.
Proven medication options, like:
- Medically managed detoxification to stop substance use safely, and services to get stable
- Drug substitution therapies and newer medicines to reduce cravings (like methadone and buprenorphine for opiate addiction)
- Nicotine replacement or other medicines for stopping tobacco use
Counseling and other therapy options, like:
- Short-term outpatient counseling
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Marriage and family counseling
- Self-help groups
- Residential (live-in) care
- Continuing care and relapse prevention (making sure you don’t slip back into the same substance use problems)
- Special programs for Veterans with specific concerns (like women Veterans, returning combat Veterans, and homeless Veterans)
Treatment and support for health conditions that can be related to substance use problems, like:
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Depression
Tulane provides addiction care services within the wider SLVHCS. Services include inpatient consultation, Intensive Outpatient Programs, and outpatient treatment. VA patients are often referred to other facilities where Tulane has services. The main campus of the VA is at 2400 Canal St. in New Orleans with outpatient services provided at the Annex also on Canal St. Dr. George Singletary is the primary faculty at the VA.
East Jefferson General Hospital/Lakeside Hospitals
For over 50 years, East Jefferson General Hospital has been deeply rooted in Metairie. Treating our community like family is the only way we know. We’ve been sharing the love with our community since our opening on Valentine’s Day in 1971 through our commitment to one-of-a-kind care for everybody, from head to toe. Frequently recognized with national accolades, we’re proud to be East Jefferson Parish’s go-to hospital for health and wellness.
Lakeside Hospital is easy to find, conveniently located just off I-10 at the Causeway Parkway exit. We serve patients from across Jefferson Parish and beyond, who receive care in a range of specialties including obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedics, inpatient rehabilitation, radiology, and general surgery.
These facilities are the location of the Tulane Addiction Consult Service. The consultation team responds to requests for addiction consultations from the primary care and specialty physicians providing hospital care to their patients. The addiction consult team then assists with care for addiction while hospitalized and in the process of accessing continuous care following discharge. Dr. Lee Michals is the faculty for the consultation service.
Alchemy IOP
Since 2004, our agency has been dedicated to addressing addiction and providing hope to individuals in our community. We offer a comprehensive range of services, including Level 2 intensive outpatient addiction treatment ASAM 2.1, outpatient medication-assisted treatment ASAM 2.7, Level 1 outpatient therapy ASAM 1.5, medically managed outpatient ASAM 1.7, and long-term remission monitoring ASAM 1.0. Our approach prioritizes compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to meet each patient’s unique needs.
We are proud to be affiliated with Tulane University's Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program and LSU's Psychiatry Residency Program, fostering an environment of academic excellence and clinical innovation. We partnered with Tulane University to become a premier training site for addiction medicine fellows. This collaboration underscores our shared commitment to advancing education and enhancing patient care in a field that is more critical than ever.
Our comprehensive training program prepares future specialists with the expertise to make a lasting impact on addiction medicine, blending hands-on experience with cutting-edge research. With nearly two decades of service, we continue to lead the way in providing exceptional care and training, shaping the future of addiction treatment in our community and beyond.
Behavioral Health Group (BHG)
BHG is a national organization with sites across the nation. The treatment is as required by law and includes daily administration of methadone or buprenorphine or dispensing or prescription of these medications for those who have succeeded with daily attendance, as well as engagement with counseling therapy. Medical care is provided by physicians with both national and regional leadership and supervision as well as Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants, and staff credentialled in nursing and medical assistance. Counseling care is provided by doctorate and master’s level therapists. Our faculty, Dr. George Singletary, is the regional medical director and our fellows train at the Downtown Clinic at 2235 Poydras St. in New Orleans.
Hancock County Family Treatment Center
Hancock County family treatment court is a unique opportunity to provide addiction medicine care to parents whose custody of their children is threatened by the addiction of those parents, who are then the participants in the family treatment court. The goal of the court is to safely reunite families, and the strategies are primarily effective treatment for addiction and the influence of the court to achieve compliance and participation. This is not a drug court in the sense that the participants have committed no crime. Rather the safety of their children is threatened by the pathological use of substances on the part of the participants. The location of the family treatment court is Bay St. Louis Ms. Participation is a combination of in person patient visits and participation in the court processes as well as virtual multidisciplinary staffing and virtual patient care. This is a weekly activity during one rotation of the academic year.
Collaborative Care Clinic
The collaborative care clinic is an effort to Co-locate addiction medicine ambulatory and consultation care with the physicians of the multidisciplinary ambulatory care clinic located at Tulane Medical Center. The goal is to provide concurrent care to those patients seen in the OB/GYN clinic as well as patients of the internal medicine and other specialty physicians. This is a well-staffed clinic environment with nursing availability instead of support for scheduling and medical assistance. This collaborative opportunity occurs weekly on an afternoon of each week.
Continuity Clinic
The continuity clinic is an opportunity to establish ongoing relationships with patients that continue for the entire year of training. The clinic is housed in the Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic in Metairie. Fellows assume the patient load of graduating trainees and follow those patients for the entire year, as well as any new patients that come into the fellows practice. This longitudinal effort is conducted with supervision that supports and encourages independent practice and provides feedback on each patient encounter. Each fellow has 1/2-day clinic on the same day of the week at the same time for the academic year. The goal is to acquire skills necessary to the longitudinal care of addiction.
