Dr. Justin Skolnick, DO
Emergency-medicine and behavioral-health background. Oversees MAT, psychiatric medication management for co-occurring disorders, and clinical-safety calls across admissions, programming, and discharge.
Dr. Justin Skolnick, DO, is the Medical Director at The Archangel Centers, the physician responsible for the medical side of every client's treatment. His training is in emergency medicine and behavioral health, the two specialties an outpatient addiction program needs most.
His core conviction shapes every part of the medical office: "In medicine, skill is important, but compassion is essential." Healing starts with safety, physical, mental, and emotional, and the medical role is to remove the cliffs people are afraid of falling off so the clinical work can happen.
- DODoctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- EM + BHEmergency + behavioral health
- MATSuboxone · Vivitrol · Sublocade
The Medical Director seat, what it actually does
Dr. Skolnick decides, on the medical side, whether a new intake is safe to start at the outpatient level of care. He sets the medication-assisted treatment plan when MAT is indicated, and manages psychiatric medications for co-occurring conditions. He stays involved in every active client's medical picture for the duration of their treatment.
- Initial medical evaluation and ongoing medical oversight for every active client
- Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone), Vivitrol (naltrexone), and Sublocade (extended-release buprenorphine), when clinically indicated
- Psychiatric medication management for co-occurring conditions (depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar, ADHD) in coordination with the clinical team
- Clinical-safety oversight across admissions, programming, and discharge
- Coordination with outside medical providers when a client has chronic medical conditions
Vitals taken without rush. Plain language. Every time.
How the medical office is run is the part most clients remember. Vital signs are taken without rush. Medication conversations are explained in plain language. Concerns about side effects or interactions are taken seriously the first time they're raised. Nothing about the medical side of the program is built to make a client feel small.
That stance is deliberate. Most people walking into outpatient addiction treatment have had medical encounters that did not go well, emergency rooms, primary-care visits that felt rushed, conversations they didn't fully understand. The medical office at Archangel is built to be the opposite of those.
“In medicine, skill is important, but compassion is essential. Healing starts with safety, and our job is to make safety the precondition, not the goal.”
Why emergency-medicine training matters here
Dr. Skolnick's emergency-medicine background, high-volume, high-acuity environments where reading a patient quickly is the difference between a good and bad outcome, is exactly what an honest outpatient program needs at the front door.
He is the person who decides whether somebody is medically safe to begin at Partial Care (PHP), at IOP, or whether they need a higher level of care first. That decision is the linchpin of an outpatient program that does not over-promise.
Routing medical questions
For medical questions about admissions, MAT eligibility, medical safety at the outpatient level, current-medication coordination, the admissions line at (888) 464-2144 is the route. The admissions team will route the call to the medical office when appropriate.
