VA New Jersey Health Care System East Orange VA Medical Center

385 Tremont Avenue East Orange, NJ 07018 | 973-676-1000

About VA New Jersey Health Care System East Orange VA Medical Center

East Orange VA Medical Center is a healthcare facility that offers a range of services, including treatment for mental and behavioral issues like substance misuse. You’ll find ’em located out in suburban East Orange, New Jersey. Support is available to adult veterans and their families. They also assist homeless veterans.

Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and other private insurance plans are accepted. Referrals are not required to enroll in their behavioral health programs.

East Orange offers both outpatient and inpatient services in their stately medical facility. There are also telehealth appointments for individuals who’re unable to make regular in-person appointments. Clients can access consultation and assessment services, followed by psychiatry and psychological services, suicide prevention services, or addiction treatment, including residential drug rehab programs. The center also offers specialized services for homeless veterans to help them get back on their feet.

If outdoor excursions are possible, there are some local sites that can help you unwind and relax. Monte Irvin Orange Park is close by so you can exercise. There’s a soccer field not too far away as well.

Medication assisted treatment (MAT) is also provided using FDA-approved medicines like methadone, buprenorphine, Suboxone, and naltrexone. For alcohol use disorder, meds like acamprosate, disulfiram, naltrexone, and topiramate are used. Meanwhile, for individuals trying to quit smoking, the center uses nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion, and varenicline.

MAT is offered alongside regular therapy sessions to help clients manage trickier withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Therapy options here include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), and contingency management (CM). CBT helps clients break unhealthy thought patterns that lead to substance abuse by using a problem-solving approach and goal-setting. MI focuses on clients’ motivations behind recovery as a means to strengthen and reinforce them. Meanwhile, CM is focused on clients’ incentives for completing treatment. These incentives become more rewarding the more consistent clients’ healthy behaviors become as a response to treatment.

An advice nurse is also on standby and can be reached should you have questions or need assistance.

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East Orange, NJ 07018
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