Veterans Affairs Medical Center Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

Services

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Persons with eating disorders
• Veterans
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Young adults
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Thioridazine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Prochlorperazine
• Thiothixene
• Haloperidol
• Fluphenazine
• Loxapine
• Perphenazine
• Chlorpromazine

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

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

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

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Ancillary Services

• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Education services
• Family psychoeducation
• Supported housing
• Integrated primary care services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Case management service
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Assertive community treatment

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Group therapy
• Activity therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

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

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

Type of Care

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Location

500 West Fort Street, Building 114, Boise, ID 83702

Phone: (866) 453-5835

Website: http://www.boise.va.gov/

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