Jesse Brown VA Medical Center Addiction Treatment Program (ATP)

Types of Care:

• inpatient heroin detox services
• residential treatment for heroin use
• inpatient treatment for heroin addiction and mental health diagnosis

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehabilitation
• outpatient heroin detoxification
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment program
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Hospitals:

• General Hospital (including VA hospital)

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Naltrexone treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Administers medication for alcohol use disorder

Pharmacotherapies:

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

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention services
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• DBT
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• relapse prevention treatment
• counseling for substance abuse
• trauma counseling
• 12 step rehabilitation

Facility Ownership:

• the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• Certified by Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
• Hospital licensing authority
• Certified by The Joint Commission

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts Military insurance
• Accepts private health insurance

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult males
• heroin rehab for veterans
• judicial clients
• co-occurring addiction and mental health treatment
• sexual abuse victims
• people with trauma

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment

Screening & Testing:

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

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Naloxone and overdose education

Ancillary Services:

• recovery management
• mental health services
• self help meetings
• social skills training
• transportation assistance
• mentoring

Detoxification:

• inpatient alcohol detoxification
• cocaine detox
• in-patient methamphetamines detoxification
• residential heroin detoxification

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• counseling for groups
• counseling for families
• counseling for couples
• substance use education
• health education services
• employment counseling services

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not allowed

Age Groups Accepted:

• adult heroin rehab
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for women
• heroin rehab for men

Exclusive Services:

• Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients
• Veteran rehab only