VA Palo Alto Health Care System Livermore Division

VA Palo Alto Health Care System's Livermore Division offers outpatient addiction treatment in Livermore, California that helps veterans and active duty military personnel.

The program provides outpatient substance use and co occurring mental health treatment including medication, counseling, medication management and therapies such as CBT, DBT and motivational interviewing.

The center has a specific focus on who it treats and includes an academic medical system that stands behind that care.

Veteran Only Addiction Treatment

Unlike civilian rehabs that occasionally admit veterans I like that the Livermore Division treats only veterans, active duty personnel and their families.

Programming is built around military specific issues such as combat and deployment trauma and they offer specialized tracks for LGBTQ veterans.

The facility operates inside the VA Palo Alto Health Care System which is a teaching hospital affiliated with the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The system also includes inpatient substance use disorder care available at other divisions when a higher level of care is needed.

For a veteran in the East Bay that means outpatient addiction treatment in Livermore connects directly into a network rather than a standalone clinic and no referral is required.

You can book an appointment and access the help you need.

A Campus With Transportation Provided

The Livermore Division sits about 40 miles east of Oakland in a rural corner of the city that's surrounded by farmland and removed from the urban core.

For veterans whose triggers are tied to a dense city environment that setting changes the texture of attending treatment several times a week.

The setting could be a barrier for those without a car but the facility addresses this with transportation provided to and from the campus.