Addiction Treatment in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is the most populous region of Virginia and is also a part of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The estimated population of the region is about 3.1 million people and counting. Washington D.C. has some of the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse in the country. Many people in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area suffer from substance use disorders. Northern Virginia is no exception and the provision of quality addiction treatment in Fairfax County and other major counties remains a priority.

Addiction Statistics Fairfax County, Northern Virginia

The Fairfax County website provides excellent statistics and resources regarding addiction and the opioid epidemic within the community. To put how dire the situation is in Fairfax County into perspective:

•         Opioids are the top unnatural cause of death
•         There were 94 deaths alone in 2020 in the health district with 87 of them involving fentanyl
•         The primary demographic visiting emergency departments for heroin and prescription non-fatal overdoses was the 25 to 34-year-old group
•         Police continue to find fentanyl laced into other common street drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, etc.

These statistics just portray the happenings in Fairfax County.

Virginia, and by default Northern Virginia, have suffered heavy casualties throughout the opioid epidemic, as being one of the many places affected by the greater introduction of fentanyl into the drug landscape.

This is evidenced by the Chief Medical Examiner of the Virginia Department of Health reporting that overall in Virginia, there has been a tenfold increase in overdose deaths from fentanyl from the period of 2007 to 2020.

Addiction Treatment in Fairfax County

There have been many efforts by the government to help educate and mitigate the impact of addiction within the state through many different measures such as free professional training on how to administer anti-opioid medication, drug disposal boxes in various locations, educational resources on substance use disorders, and more.

While this is important, it is clear that one of the most influential aspects of treating addiction is, unsurprisingly, access to addiction treatment. Governmental aid and tightened monitoring over prescription rates of opioids as well as other educational facets of understanding this disease is important. However, when someone is ill what they need most immediately is access to proper and professional care.

Encore Outpatient Services offers addiction treatment in Fairfax County as well as the DC metropolitan area as a whole. Our close proximity to several major counties and neighborhoods impacted by addiction in the DC metropolitan area makes us a prime location for many people struggling with addiction to seek out treatment with us.

Encore provides a wealth of services aimed at holistically treating addiction including:

•         Emphasis on addiction and co-occurring conditions
•         Dual diagnosis
•         Emphasis on family systems
•         Psychiatry and medication management
•         Trauma treatment
•         Psychotherapy

And more.

Addiction can be a complex disease but that does not mean there isn’t a way to achieve healthy and sustainable recovery. If you are seeking addiction treatment in Fairfax County or the surrounding areas, contact Encore Outpatient Services today for more information about our programs and how we can help you or a loved one enter into an appropriate program.