Summa Health - Canton, located in Canton, Ohio, serves over one million patients annually. As part of the Summa Health nonprofit system, it offers a wide range of services including acute, critical, emergency, outpatient, and long-term care. The institution is dedicated to enhancing community health.
Summa Health's mission is to deliver the highest quality, compassionate care to patients. They aim to improve community health through their comprehensive services.
- Serves over one million patients annually in the Akron/Canton area.
- Provides a wide range of care settings from emergency to long-term/home care.
- Operates numerous facilities, ensuring accessibility for local residents.
- Committed to enhancing community health and wellbeing.
Summa Health - Canton focuses on serving a diverse population through its comprehensive healthcare services, including acute and long-term care.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 5 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 17 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations

JCAHO
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Substance abuse refers to the intensive and inappropriate use of psychoactive substances. Psychoactive substances are those that affect brain function. These include illegal drugs, alcohol, and even the excessive use of prescription drugs. The overuse of psychoactive substances leads to severe physical or psychological dependence. It also affects the social life and relationships of the affected individual. Substance abuse is treatable.
The duration of treatment at Summa Health - Canton in Canton can require weeks or even months depending on the severity of the condition as there is a risk of relapse. Treatment options include medications, counseling sessions, various types of behavioral therapy, and group therapy in different combinations.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Addiction to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and illicit opioids such as heroin, leads to potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. Opioid addiction treatment typically involves an inpatient stay at facilities like Summa Health - Canton to make sure they get through withdrawal safely. Treatment also includes comprehensive mental health counseling.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Inpatient programs are intensive regimes that require individuals suffering from serious addictions to admit themselves into a controlled environment. Inpatient programs in Ohio generally span over 28 days to six months. The first step in an inpatient program is medically assisted detox. Doctors and addiction specialists at Summa Health - Canton monitor the individual’s vital signs as the drugs leave their system. Some inpatient rehab programs also provide counseling for family members to provide encouragement and emotional support. In inpatient programs, patients have access to 24-hour medical supervision.
Daily trips to the hospital that provides the treatment include intensive outpatient services (IOP). IOP in Ohio is appropriate for patients in residential recovery facilities that have been diagnosed with addiction. Patients return to their everyday lives gradually, increasing the likeliness of success in treatment.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Summa Health - Canton offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Ohio patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.
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 Canton, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Summa Health - Canton. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Summa Health - Canton‘s Therapies & Programs
In addiction recovery at Summa Health - Canton, therapy plays a significant role. This helps patients get to the root of their addiction and discover how the problems that contributed to their use can be handled better. Therapy can be performed in a group and one on one settings. The patient interacts with the therapist in a one-on-one atmosphere during individual therapy. This encourages them to reflect on the underlying addiction problems and develop ways to avoid potential future abuse.
Recovering from addiction involves recovering relationships as well. One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Couples therapy at Summa Health - Canton can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged. Addiction involves everyone in the family, not only the addict.
Family roles can change in damaging ways that may require professional help to rebalance. Successful intimate relationships can decrease the chances for relapse by ensuring a healthy environment after rehab in Canton, OH.
Addiction and alcoholism affect the entire family. For this reason, family therapy is vital to a person’s recovery from addiction. In contrast to couples counseling, family therapy at Summa Health - Canton may include siblings, children, parents, and other significant people in the recovering person’s life. Family support is one of the most important pillars of recovery.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at Summa Health - Canton helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on eliminating specific negative thoughts such as suicidal thoughts that can potentially lead to an individual inflicting self-harm. It is useful in the treatment of patients exhibiting uncontrollable emotions, intense mood swings, and borderline personality disorders.
The term “Dialectic” means the integration of opposites. In the substance abuse context, DBT refers to accepting the patient’s addiction and working to change their thoughts and behavior. It improves life skills such as controlling the intense emotions without reacting impulsively, resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively, and promoting awareness about self and others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Summa Health - Canton aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
The recovery technique used by Alcoholics Anonymous is the 12 step program, but it can relate to any form of addiction. The 12 steps that addicts must take on the road to recovery are explained. Measures include acknowledging that you have a problem and agreeing to turn around your life. The curriculum, instructed by Summa Health - Canton, also requires a belief in a greater power and making amends to others.
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Location & Contact

3730 Whipple Ave NW
Canton, OH 44718
Phone Number
(330) 491-9215
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Canton, Ohio Addiction and Treatment
Ohio is suffering from a drug abuse problem that is costing thousands of its residents their lives every single year. Opioids, particularly Fentanyl and heroin, are the leading drugs in the state. The state ranks in the top 10 for illicit use of painkillers. Opioid-related overdose rates in Ohio are by far some of the highest in the country.
Canton's vibrant downtown boasts an arts district with galleries and the renowned Canton Palace Theatre. Stark County faced a 22.3 per 100 drug overdose rate in 2018, yet saw an 18% drop in opioid prescriptions by 2021, as addiction trends shifted.
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