VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System Southwest Las Vegas VA Clinic Claimed

About VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System Southwest Las Vegas VA Clinic

The Southwest Las Vegas VA Clinic is an outpatient medical center in Las Vegas, Nevada, that’s for veterans and military members and their families. They have a lot of different departments and medical services here, and one of them provides mental health and addiction treatment. Referrals are required to enroll.

Since this is an outpatient treatment center, they don’t offer overnight stays, but they can still help with many different stages and aspects of your recovery. Detox is part of this. They can help guide your detox process and if you’re detoxing from opioids they can offer specialized medications too. Those medications basically make your body think it’s getting opiates so you have fewer cravings and withdrawal symptoms while you detox.

In some cases, you might need inpatient detox if you need closer medical supervision and medical management. In that case, this clinic can coordinate those services for you at an inpatient VA center.

In any case, they can also treat co-occurring mental health conditions while you detox here. They have specialized experience for treating veterans, including addressing some of the issues that can contribute to addiction for veterans like trauma from combat and military service.

Along with detox, the VA has a full continuum of care for addiction treatment from residential rehab to intensive outpatient treatment to ongoing relapse prevention support. Your care coordinator can help you get the specific treatment you need for long term recovery. They also have group counseling for certain circumstances like veterans who are experiencing homelessness and women veterans so you can connect with a community of people in your shoes.

Most of the clients seem to have been happy with their experiences at this treatment center. They say that the facility is smooth and well operated, and that the staff is courteous and professional. Some do have frustrations with appointments getting canceled but, overall, the reviews are positive.