Veterans Affairs Medical Center Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program

Veterans Affairs Medical Center Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Seniors or older adults
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Members of military families
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Veterans
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Ancillary Services

• Supported housing
• Suicide prevention services
• Intensive case management
• Integrated primary care services
• Case management service
• Family psychoeducation
• Supported employment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Education services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Illness management and recovery
• Legal advocacy
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Diet and exercise counseling

Type of Care

• Substance use treatment
• Mental health treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• County or local government funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State education agency funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Private health insurance
• Other State funds
• Medicare
• Community Service Block Grants
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicaid

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Group therapy
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Individual psychotherapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Ketamine Infusion Therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy

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

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

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

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

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

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Pharmacotherapies

• Ziprasidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Olanzapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Clozapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Quetiapine
• Risperidone