University of Alabama at Birmingham Addiction Recovery Program

University of Alabama at Birmingham Addiction Recovery Program

Services:
License/Certification/Accreditation
• Hospital licensing authority
• The Joint Commission

Type of Care

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

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

• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
• Regular outpatient treatment
• Outpatient

Ancillary Services

• Case management service

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced trauma

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity
• In-network prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity

Education and Counseling Services

• Marital/couples counseling
• Substance use disorder education
• Group counseling
• Individual counseling
• Family counseling

External Opioid Medications Source

• In-network prescribing entity
• No formal relationship with prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Outreach to persons in the community
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Screening for substance use

Testing

• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

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

• State government

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

• Naltrexone used in Treatment
• Buprenorphine used in Treatment

Transitional Services

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

Pharmacotherapies

• Clonidine
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
• Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant
• Acamprosate (Campral®)
• Disulfiram
• Nicotine replacement
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Medication for mental disorders
• Buprenorphine with naloxone

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Type of Opioid Treatment

• Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
• Prescribes buprenorphine
• Buprenorphine maintenance
• Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
• Prescribes naltrexone
• Relapse prevention with naltrexone

Gender Accepted

• Female
• Male

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment

Hospitals

• General Hospital (including VA hospital)

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Relapse prevention
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Motivational interviewing
• Anger management
• 12-step facilitation
• Brief intervention
• Trauma-related counseling
• Substance use disorder counseling