About El Dorado Community Service Center – Fort Help Mission – San Francisco
El Dorado Community Service Center (ECSC) provides low-cost integrated medical and behavioral healthcare services including substance use recovery across Southern and Northern California. Their Fort Help Mission is situated on Capp Street in the vibrant Mission District neighborhood of San Francisco within San Francisco County, California. They are part of a network of community clinics serving San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco counties. They accept Medicare and MediCal, which helps keep costs low. They also offer sliding fee scale payments for the uninsured. This lets you pay for care according to your income and family size, ensuring no one gets denied care due to inability to pay. Another appealing thing is that they offer services in English and Spanish.
This area is known for its Latino culture, street art and diverse dining scene. The clinic is near Mission Street and 24th Street with easy access to businesses and parks. This includes Precita Park about 10 minutes walk from the clinic and the popular Dolores Park and Bernal Heights Park, which are just a mile nearby. It is less than three miles south of downtown San Francisco, making it centrally located.
ECSC’s Fort Help Mission specializes in medication assisted treatment or MAT for opioid use recovery and alcoholism treatment. This clinically proven recovery technique combines meds approved by the FDA and counseling to deliver “whole person” care. The clinic may offer a prescription of Suboxone and Disulfiram for their MAT program to help you curb physiological cravings and eliminate painful withdrawal symptoms.
This is backed up with individual and group counseling to help you tackle underlying psychological and emotional issues contributing to your substance dependence. Therapy also helps you build practical coping mechanisms that inspire a sober lifestyle and prevent relapse. Pairing therapy and meds this way takes care of the physical and psychological symptoms. This ensures holistic care involving general wellness of the body, mind and soul. It also keeps you in recovery longer, thereby facilitating lasting abstinence.
ECSC’s Fort Help Mission offers naloxone or Narcan access and education for overdose prevention. Narcan is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of opioid overdoses. The clinic ensures individuals and families are educated on its proper use to reduce overdose fatalities and enhance safety. The clinic also offers HIV/AIDS and STD testing. People who inject IV drugs are susceptible to HIV/AIDS infections due to the sharing of needles and other drug paraphernalia. Testing ensures early detection & treatment to prevent community spread.
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