Veterans Affairs Medical Center Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

Veterans Affairs Medical Center Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

Services:
Facility Smoking Policy
• Smoking not permitted

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient
• Residential/24-hour residential

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Young adults
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Veterans
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Clients who have experienced trauma

Type of Care

• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Case management service
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Family psychoeducation
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Education services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Supported housing
• Assertive community treatment
• Suicide prevention services
• Integrated primary care services

Pharmacotherapies

• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Perphenazine
• Chlorpromazine
• Loxapine
• Thiothixene
• Thioridazine
• Fluphenazine
• Haloperidol
• Nicotine replacement
• Prochlorperazine

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Activity therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Group therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Individual psychotherapy

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Federal Government
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs