Syracuse VA Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic

Syracuse VA Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic

Services:
Facility Smoking Policy
• Smoking not permitted

Gender Accepted

• Male
• Female

Type of Care

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Adult men
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Active duty military
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Members of military families
• Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
• Seniors or older adults
• Veterans
• Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
• Pregnant/postpartum women
• Adult women
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Young adults
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

Ancillary Services

• Transportation assistance
• Social skills development
• Domestic violence services, including family or partner
• Case management service
• Mental health services
• Suicide prevention services

Hospitals

• General Hospital (including VA hospital)

Detoxification (medical withdrawal) Services

• Opioids detoxification
• Methamphetamines detoxification
• Alcohol Detoxification
• Benzodiazepines Detoxification

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity
• In-network prescribing entity

Education and Counseling Services

• Individual counseling
• Group counseling
• Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
• Family counseling
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
• Substance use disorder education
• Marital/couples counseling

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicaid
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicare
• Private health insurance

External Opioid Medications Source

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity
• In-network prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Screening for tobacco use
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Professional interventionist/educational consultant
• Outreach to persons in the community
• Screening for substance use
• Screening for mental disorders
• Interim services for clients

Recovery Support Services

• Employment counseling or training
• Recovery coach
• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Treatment Approaches

• Contingency management/motivational incentives
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Motivational interviewing
• Substance use disorder counseling
• Relapse prevention
• Anger management
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Brief intervention
• Trauma-related counseling

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

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

Type of Opioid Treatment

• Prescribes naltrexone
• Prescribes buprenorphine
• Buprenorphine maintenance
• Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
• Relapse prevention with naltrexone
• Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization

Testing

• Drug or alcohol urine screening

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

• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
• Regular outpatient treatment
• Outpatient
• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Outpatient detoxification

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

• Buprenorphine used in Treatment
• Naltrexone used in Treatment

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
• The Joint Commission

Pharmacotherapies

• Buprenorphine with naloxone
• Disulfiram
• Clonidine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Medication for mental disorders
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
• Acamprosate (Campral�)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
• Buprenorphine without naloxone

Transitional Services

• Naloxone and overdose education
• Discharge Planning
• Outcome follow-up after discharge
• Aftercare/continuing care

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults

Other Services

• Treatment for other addiction disorder

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing