El Paso VA Main Campus Main Campus

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Type of Care

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

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

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

Pharmacotherapies

• Paliperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Olanzapine
• Lurasidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Aripiprazole
• Nicotine replacement
• Ziprasidone
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Quetiapine
• Clozapine
• Risperidone

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Veterans
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Language Services

• Spanish

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Ancillary Services

• Supported employment
• Legal advocacy
• Family psychoeducation
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Illness management and recovery
• Case management service
• Integrated primary care services

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• HIV testing
• STD testing
• Laboratory testing
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• TB screening

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Treatment Approaches

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

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

• Outpatient