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Alamo Area Resource Center Inc

Services reported to SAMHSA (2025)

This is what the program told SAMHSA in its 2025 national survey. It may have changed; confirm by phone.

Type of Care

  • Substance use treatment
  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children

Service Setting

  • Outpatient
  • Regular outpatient treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

  • Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
  • Cash or self-payment

Payment Assistance Available

  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence

Language Services

  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Spanish

Pharmacotherapies

  • Medications for HIV treatment
  • Medication for mental disorders
  • Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

External Opioid Medications Source

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

  • Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder

Type of Opioid Treatment

  • Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

Treatment Approaches

  • Anger management
  • Brief intervention
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Contingency management/motivational incentives
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Relapse prevention
  • Substance use disorder counseling
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Trauma-related counseling

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

  • Private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation

  • State substance use treatment agency
  • State mental health department
  • State department of health

Assessment/Pre-treatment

  • Comprehensive mental health assessment
  • Comprehensive substance use assessment
  • Interim services for clients
  • Outreach to persons in the community
  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Screening for substance use
  • Screening for mental disorders

Testing

  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)

Transitional Services

  • Aftercare/continuing care
  • Discharge Planning
  • Outcome follow-up after discharge

Recovery Support Services

  • Housing services
  • Assistance with obtaining social services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Employment counseling or training

Other Services

  • Treatment for gambling disorder
  • Treatment for other addiction disorder

Education and Counseling Services

  • HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
  • Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
  • Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
  • Substance use disorder education
  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
  • Individual counseling
  • Group counseling
  • Family counseling
  • Marital/couples counseling

Medical Services

  • Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
  • Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking not permitted

Sex Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Exclusive Services

  • Alcohol use disorder clients only

Facility Vaping Policy

  • Vaping permitted in designated area

Ancillary Services

  • Case management service
  • Domestic violence services, including family or partner
  • Early intervention for HIV
  • Mental health services
  • Transportation assistance
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