Hiwassee Mental Health Center Athens

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 methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
• regular outpatient treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Naltrexone used in Treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• In-network prescribing entity
• Personal physician/health care provider

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

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

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type Of Treatment:

• naltrexone administration
• relapse prevention from naltrexone

Pharmacotherapies:

• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders

Treatment Approaches:

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

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency
• State mental health department
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Federal, or any government funding for substance use programs
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Military insurance
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• dual diagnosis treatment

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• TB screening

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning

Ancillary Services:

• Case management
• Mental health services
• Social skills development

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• group counseling
• family counseling
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not permitted

Gender Accepted:

• women
• men

Services for deaf:

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing are available