CORTLAND — Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS), an affiliate of Cayuga Health, recently opened opioid treatment program services to local residents at the building at 6 Euclid Ave. in Cortland. CARS provides treatment options to assist with opiate-use disorder. Services include individual and group counseling, Hepatitis C treatment, and peer services. The CARS Cortland treatment […]
CORTLAND — Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS), an affiliate of Cayuga Health, recently opened opioid treatment program services to local residents at the building at 6 Euclid Ave. in Cortland.
CARS provides treatment options to assist with opiate-use disorder. Services include individual and group counseling, Hepatitis C treatment, and peer services. The CARS Cortland treatment program is “the first of this kind” in the area, offering both medication-assisted treatment and counseling-based services, according to a Jan. 23 joint news release from CARS and Cayuga Health.
Funding for CARS’ opioid treatment program is being provided by Healing Cortland, supported by Columbia University’s HEALing Communities Study, a National Institute of Health (NIH) effort to reduce opioid-overdose deaths.
“CARS offers treatment to those with substance use disorders in the most convenient means possible to them,” Jeff Penoyer, chief operating officer at Cayuga Health Ambulatory Services, said in the release. “This multi-faceted Opioid Treatment Program offers new options for people who need these services here in Cortland, where they live and work.”
Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services provides evidence-based outpatient, opioid treatment program, and residential rehabilitation services in Ithaca and Trumansburg. CARS, operating under the oversight of New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), serves individuals throughout the upstate New York region.
Cayuga Health has two hospitals — Cayuga Medical Center and Schuyler Hospital — as well as a multi-specialty group, Cayuga Medical Associates. Combined employment, including affiliated organizations, totals more than 3,100. CH is clinically affiliated with Mayo Medical Laboratories, Rochester Regional Health for cardiac services, and the University of Rochester for neurosciences.
