Hiwassee Mental Health Center Athens

Types of Care:

• residential treatment for heroin abuse
• inpatient treatment for co-occurring mental health and heroin use

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin treatment
• outpatient methadone/buprenorphine/naltrexone treatment
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Naltrexone clinical 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
• Prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type Of Treatment:

• administers naltrexone
• relapse prevention from naltrexone

Pharmacotherapies:

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

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention services
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• relapse prevention treatment
• substance use counseling approach
• counseling for trauma victims
• 12 step rehabilitation

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts Military insurance
• Accepts private health insurance
• Accepts self payment and cash
• Accepts state health insurance

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• co-occurring addiction and mental health 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 managers
• mental health services
• social skills training

Counseling Services and Education:

• counseling for individuals
• group counseling
• family counseling
• counseling for couples
• substance use education

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not allowed

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for women
• in-patient heroin rehab for men

Services for deaf:

• Service for hearing impaired