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Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

Veterans Affairs Medical Center provides addiction treatment and mental health care in Boise, ID, with outpatient, residential, and hospital inpatient services. People seeking care can access detoxification, intensive outpatient treatment, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Payment options include private health insurance and Medicare.

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

Services & treatment options

Treatment

Type of Care

  • Detoxification
  • 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

Care setting

  • Hospital inpatient detoxification
  • Hospital inpatient treatment
  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Intensive outpatient treatment
  • Outpatient
  • Outpatient detoxification
  • Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
  • Regular outpatient treatment
  • Residential detoxification
  • Residential/24-hour residential
  • Short-term residential
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
  • Buprenorphine used in Treatment
  • Naltrexone used in Treatment
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
  • In-network prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
  • Buprenorphine detoxification
  • Buprenorphine maintenance
  • Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
  • Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
  • Prescribes buprenorphine
  • Prescribes naltrexone
  • Relapse prevention with naltrexone
Pharmacotherapies
  • Acamprosate (Campral®)
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
  • Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
  • Buprenorphine with naloxone
  • Chlorpromazine
  • Clonidine
  • Disulfiram
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Medication for mental disorders
  • Medications for HIV treatment
  • Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
  • Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
  • Naltrexone (oral)
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thioridazine
  • Thiothixene

Treatment Approaches

  • 12-step facilitation
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale
  • Activity therapy
  • Anger management
  • Brief intervention
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Contingency management/motivational incentives
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Relapse prevention
  • Substance use disorder counseling
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Trauma-related counseling
Assessment/Pre-treatment
  • Complete medical history/physical exam
  • Comprehensive mental health assessment
  • Comprehensive substance use assessment
  • Interim services for clients
  • Outreach to persons in the community
  • Screening for mental disorders
  • Screening for substance use
  • Screening for tobacco use
Testing
  • Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
  • Drug or alcohol urine screening
  • HIV testing
  • Laboratory testing
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Detoxification (medical withdrawal) Services
  • Alcohol Detoxification
  • Benzodiazepines Detoxification
  • Cocaine Detoxification
  • Medication routinely used during detoxification
  • Methamphetamines detoxification
  • Opioids detoxification
Medical Services
  • Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
  • Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Emergency Mental Health Services
  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Who we help

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

Age Groups Accepted

  • Adults
  • Seniors
  • Young Adults

Gender Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Payment & insurance

Payment and insurance

  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
  • Medicare
  • Private health insurance
  • U.S. Department of VA funds

Payment Assistance Available

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

Support services

Transitional Services
  • Aftercare/continuing care
  • Discharge Planning
  • Naloxone and overdose education
  • Outcome follow-up after discharge
Recovery Support Services
  • Assistance with obtaining social services
  • Employment counseling or training
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Self-help groups
Other Services
  • Treatment for gambling disorder
  • Treatment for other addiction disorder
Education and Counseling Services
  • Family counseling
  • Group counseling
  • HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
  • Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
  • Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
  • Individual counseling
  • Marital/couples counseling
  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
  • Substance use disorder education
Language Services
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Spanish
Ancillary Services
  • Acupuncture
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Case management service
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Domestic violence services, including family or partner
  • Early intervention for HIV
  • Education services
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Mental health services
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Social skills development
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Supported housing
  • Transportation assistance
  • Vocational rehabilitation services

About the center

Hospitals
  • General Hospital (including VA hospital)
Facility operation
  • Federal Government
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
License/Certification/Accreditation
  • Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
  • The Joint Commission
Facility Smoking Policy
  • Smoking not permitted
Facility Vaping Policy
  • Vaping not permitted
Facility Type
  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility