Frontier Health - Link House
Frontier Health - Link House located in Kingsport, Tennessee, specializes in helping runaway and at-risk adolescents. This division of Frontier Health offers essential services focusing on mental health and substance abuse treatment, supporting youth in crisis through dedicated recovery-focused programs.
The mission of Link House emphasizes mental, spiritual, and emotional healing, helping young individuals develop life skills and coping mechanisms for long-term stability.
- Offers daily life skills groups essential for personal development and recovery.
- Includes individual, group, and family therapy sessions tailored to the needs of at-risk youth.
- Provides crisis intervention services for immediate assistance in critical situations.
- Temporary housing available for runaway and at-risk youth, ensuring a safe environment during crises.
This facility addresses the challenges faced by runaway youth and adolescents, benefiting those requiring mental health and substance abuse services.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 13 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 8 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 28 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Accreditations
CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
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 Kingsport, TN, 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 Frontier Health - Link House are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at Frontier Health - Link House
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 Frontier Health - Link House in Kingsport, TN 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. Frontier Health - Link House in Tennessee 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, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detoxification is a process that allows the patient to stop using opioids without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This can be necessary for those who have been addicted for a long period of time or who are struggling with chronic pain.
During this process, addicts will receive medication and psychological support from doctors and other medical professionals until they can control their cravings.
Inpatient treatment involves staying in the hospital or facility while treating all facets of addiction or co-occurring illness. This helps to minimize distractions and increase the emphasis on rehabilitation. Typical stays for inpatient rehabilitation in Kingsport, TN are about a month long.
Intensive outpatient programs (IOP) comprise regular visits to the Tennessee facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. Frontier Health - Link House‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.
Facilities like Frontier Health - Link House 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.
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.
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 Kingsport, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Frontier Health - Link House. 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 Frontier Health - Link House in Kingsport, TN 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 Frontier Health - Link House that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.
Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process Frontier Health - Link House uses which involves rewarding positive choices and good outcomes. As humans we are wired to recreate experiences that lead to positive feelings.
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Location & Contact
433 New Beason Well Rd
Kingsport, TN 37660
Phone Number
(423) 288-1828
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Kingsport, Tennessee Addiction and Treatment
Tennessee joins the list of states with an above-average rate for drug and/or alcohol-induced deaths. Most of these deaths are related to opioids, such as prescription opioids. The Volunteer State ranks 2nd highest in the nation for the number of prescriptions given out. The state also ranks at the top for prescription drug-related overdoses.
Sullivan County, a vibrant community nestled in the heart of New York, faces a formidable challenge with substance abuse. Recent statistics paint a grim picture: the county's opioid overdose death rate soared to an alarming 49.5 per 100,000 people in 2024, a staggering 108% higher than the state average. Fentanyl abuse has also taken a significant toll, with 218 overdose incidents and 24 fatalities reported in 2022 alone.
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