Alcohol and Other Drugs Services

Low-income Contra Costa County residents, including:

• Medi-Cal beneficiaries with Contra Costa Health Plan
• People without insurance. We will not deny services based on inability to pay.

A qualified healthcare provider must deem the services to be medically necessary, which means the patient’s diagnosis qualifies for certain addiction-treatment services.

The following services are available for eligible participants who meet medical necessity:

Screening & Brief Intervention

• Who: Youth and adults
• What: Prevention care once per year with your assigned medical provider under your own health plan.

Outpatient

• Who: Youth (under 21) and adults
• What: Less intensive community-based services (up to 9 hours per week) that include group and individual counseling, patient education, crises assistance and case management.

Intensive Outpatient

• Who: Youth (under 21) and adults
• What: More intensive community-based service (up to 19 hours per week or up to 30 hours per week for perinatal patients) that include individual and group counseling, patient education, crises assistance, and case management

Medication Assisted Treatment

• Who: Adults with opioid-use disorders
• What: Available prescribed medications include methadone and buprenorphine. Case management, and group and individual counselor
  are also offered.

Withdrawal Management (Detox)

• Who: Adults only
• What: Non-Medical 24-hour detox and moderate withdrawal services for 5 days.

Residential (Pre-authorized service)

• Who: Youth (under 21) and adults
• What: Short-term residential (24/7 Live-In) services include individual and group counseling, patient education, and case management.

Recovery Support Services

• Who: Adults
• What: Support services include relapse prevention, recovery coaching, recovery support, builds self-management skills.

In addition to individual and group counseling, some patients may need to take medication to get extra help with their recovery.

Methadone, which helps people stop using heroin, is probably the best-known medication assisted treatment. But there are also other medications, including some that help reduce cravings for alcohol (acamprosate and naltrexone) and opiates (buprenorphine and Suboxone).

In Contra Costa, Suboxone treatment is provided through the Choosing Change clinics. If you are a new patient, please contact the Behavioral Health Access Line For an appointment.

• Suicide Crisis Hotline: 1-800-233-2900
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