Hartford Dispensary

About Hartford Dispensary

Hartford Dispensary in Bristol, Connecticut, is part of Root Center for Advanced Recovery, a behavioral health organization with more than 50 years of experience that treats over 5,500 people across the state each day. They care for both substance use and mental health conditions, with a whole-person approach that pairs evidence-based methods with a focus on meeting each patient at their current stage of recovery. Their levels of care include medication-assisted treatment, a partial hospitalization program and adult day treatment, and intensive outpatient programming, and the organization has recently opened its first residential facility.

Medication-assisted treatment is a core service, with buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone available to adults and teens alongside counseling and behavioral therapies to ease cravings and withdrawal from opioids and alcohol. The partial hospitalization and adult day programs run four hours a day, five days a week, usually for one to two weeks, and serve people stepping down from inpatient care or trying to avoid it. Small groups of 6 to 12 people cover relapse prevention, trauma, mindfulness, stress management, and healthy relationships, and specialized groups address gender-specific, LGBTQ, and veteran concerns as well as support for abuse survivors, with individual therapy, family therapy, and medication management added as needed. They also run a weekly problem gambling group, in person or virtually, and an art therapy-informed open studio, and intensive outpatient groups are available in morning or evening sessions.