This piece is sponsored by Avera Health.
Helping people overcome addiction means helping them through what is perhaps the challenge of a lifetime. Now in its seventh year, the Avera Addiction Care Center in Sioux Falls has evolved yet still maintains its original cornerstones of respect, confidence and hope.
“We recognize the importance of evidence-based therapies for both addiction and mental health,” said Dr. Hannah Statz DeVries, an Avera addiction psychiatrist. “We always have. Yet as an integrated health system that offers addiction care, we can take a full range of patients, including medically complex patients who also may be struggling with something like liver disease or kidney failure, as well as those patients who have co-occurring mental health conditions like bipolar disorder or major depression.”
Physicians and peer support…