RiverValley Behavioral Health in Owensboro, Kentucky, is an 80-bed private psychiatric hospital offering comprehensive behavioral health services and substance abuse prevention programs. It provides individualized care for children, adults, and families. The Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) focuses on immediate mental health and substance abuse intervention.
RiverValley Behavioral Health’s mission is to provide compassionate, high-quality care tailored to the needs of their community. Accredited by CARF, they received the National Mental Health Corporations of America's Best Practices Award for client satisfaction in 2021.
- Offers psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups to address various mental health issues.
- Provides school-based psychotherapy to support students' mental health needs.
- Features a Crisis Stabilization Unit for urgent intervention and stabilization in mental health crises.
- Runs a gambling hotline to assist individuals struggling with gambling addiction.
RiverValley Behavioral Health effectively treats mental health crises, substance use disorders, and gambling issues, serving children, adults, and their families or significant others.
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 6 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 20 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Owensboro, KY, you may be suffering from substance abuse.
Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit
Opioids are a set of drugs prescribed for pain relief. Health care providers prescribe opioids for relief of severe pain after major surgeries and in conditions like cancer. Oxycodone, fentanyl, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine are some of the commonly prescribed opioids. They also include illegal drugs of abuse like heroin. Opioid addiction refers to the compulsive seeking of opioids, even when they are not required medically.
Opioid addiction treatment involves medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which medicines, counseling, and behavioral therapies are all employed. Opioid addiction treatment is a comprehensive approach at RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit in Owensboro, KY that boosts the treatment success rate and provides sustained recovery.
Dual-Diagnosis
Mental illness includes conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. It can also happen that mental illness causes drug addiction and vice versa. RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit in Kentucky knows it is vital to diagnose dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Intensive outpatient programs (IOP) comprise regular visits to the Kentucky facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.
Facilities like RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit offer a variety of services, such as individual and group counseling and family therapy. During the sessions, you work with a team of experts that include: General physicians, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychologists. The main goals of outpatient recovery programs are to help addicted individuals reduce drug use and addictive behaviors, eventually becoming entirely sober.
Partial hospitalization (PHP) is a type of outpatient addiction care. Each plan is tailored to meet unique individual needs. Treatment is more intense than that you receive at a therapist’s office. It is less intense than inpatient rehab. The entire treatment takes about ten days to complete. It does not require you to stay at the Kentucky treatment center. Each visit lasts several hours, sometimes, eight hours. It can be the best choice for those who have recently developed an addiction.
Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Owensboro, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Therapies & Programs
One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Addiction involves everyone in a family, not only the addict. Couples therapy can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged.
When the whole family is involved, healing can be far more successful. Family counseling involves genetic factors to the family of the addict. This offers the means to cope with addiction and its underlying emotional disorders for loved ones. It is a helpful method for addicts in helping to adjust to sober living.
Trauma therapy allows people who struggled with a past trauma to face the situation and learn to overcome the situation. Many people who went through trauma early on, struggle with addiction later in life. By addressing the trauma and moving past the issues, it can help someone attending treatment at RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit in Owensboro, KY move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
REBT stands for rational emotional behavior therapy. This is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, that combines images with thoughts and behaviors. It allows for deeper education and understanding of what one can do to help themselves with recovery. It is a deep sense of self-help education managed by RiverValley Behavioral Health - Crisis Stabilization Unit that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.
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Location & Contact

1100 Walnut Street
Owensboro, KY 42301
Phone Number
(270) 689-6500
Additional Locations
- RiverValley Behavioral Health - Ohio County Office in Beaver Dam, KY
- RiverValley Behavioral Health - Henderson County Office in Henderson, KY
- RiverValley Behavioral Health - Union County Office in Morganfield, KY
- River Valley Behavioral Health - Providence in Providence, KY
- River Valley Behavioral Health - Beaver Dam in Beaver Dam, KY
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Owensboro, Kentucky Addiction and Treatment
Kentucky ranks among the top ten states for opioid-related overdoses. Most of these are due to heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioid use. A little over 11% of the Kentucky population abuses alcohol in a given year. More than 15% of Kentucky adults admit to participating in binge drinking every month.
Owensboro, a peaceful riverfront city in western Kentucky, offers family-friendly attractions and a mild climate ideal for healing. However, the city has been grappling with the opioid epidemic, with fentanyl-related deaths increasing by 200% between 2017 and 2018. Daviess County, where Owensboro is located, ranks 4th in the state for drug overdose mortality rate at 28.3 per 100,000 residents.
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