Salem VA Medical Center

1970 Roanoke Blvd, Salem, VA 24153 | 540-982-2463

About Salem VA Medical Center

Salem VA Medical Center is a healthcare facility that offers a range of services, including treatment services for mental and behavioral issues like substance misuse. You’ll find ’em located out in Salem, Virginia. Support is available to adult veterans and their families. They also assist homeless veterans. Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and other private insurance plans are accepted.

Both inpatient and outpatient services are offered with the goal of providing drug rehab, health maintenance, and community support as part of a rounded recovery service. Featuring 24-hour therapeutic and educational programs, their inpatient facility is designed to support veterans with addiction issues, unemployment, homelessness, mental health, and overall well being.

A few therapy options are provided here for clients to choose from as part of both residential and outpatient services. These include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), and contingency management (CM). CBT aims to help clients change their self-perception, and break unhealthy thought patterns that may lead to substance abuse using a problem-solving approach and goal setting.

MI focuses on conversations between clients’ and their therapist, with attention to their motivations behind recovery as a means to strengthen and reinforce them.

CM is more focused on incentives for completing treatment with these incentives becoming more attractive the more consistently healthy clients’ behaviors become as a response to treatment.

Medication assisted treatment (MAT) is also provided using FDA-approved medicines like methadone, buprenorphine, Suboxone, and naltrexone. MAT is especially effective when applied with regular therapy sessions to help clients manage trickier withdrawal symptoms and cravings.

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1970 Roanoke Blvd,
Salem, VA 24153
  • Monday 8AM - 5PM
  • Tuesday 8AM - 5PM
  • Wednesday 8AM - 5PM
  • Thursday 8AM - 5PM
  • Friday 8AM - 5PM
  • Saturday Closed
  • Sunday Closed
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