Central Alabama Veterans Healthcare System

Types of Care:

• substance use treatment
• dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Settings:

• outpatient treatment
• outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
• intensive outpatient treatment
• regular outpatient treatment

Hospitals:

• General Hospital (including VA hospital)

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Does not use 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:

• In-network prescribing entity

Pharmacotherapies:

• Acamprosate (Campral)
• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix Model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling
• 12-step rehab

Facility Ownership:

• the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency
• State department of health
• State mental health department
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
• Council on Accreditation
• Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program
• Hospital licensing authority
• The Joint Commission
• National Committee for Quality Assurance

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Federal, or any government funding for substance use programs
• Military insurance
• Private health insurance

Payment Assistance Available:

• Payment assistance

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• veterans
• dual diagnosis treatment
• people with co-occurring pain and substance use

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Interim services for clients
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• HIV testing
• Screening for Hepatitis B
• Screening for Hepatitis C
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• STD testing
• TB screening

Transitional Services:

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

Ancillary Services:

• Case management
• Domestic violence services
• Early intervention for HIV
• Housing services
• Mental health services
• Self-help groups
• Social skills development
• Transportation assistance
• Professional interventionist/Educational consultants
• Mentoring/Peer support

Other Addictions Treatment:

• Treatment for non-substance use addiction disorder

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• group counseling
• family counseling
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education, counseling and support
• health education services
• employment counseling and training
• vocational training and educational support

Medical Services:

• Hepatitis A vaccination
• Hepatitis B vaccination

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Gender Accepted:

• women
• men

Exclusive Services:

• Serves Veterans only