VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System – Canton VA Outpatient Clinic

VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System Canton VA Outpatient Clinic is located in Canton, Ohio. They help veterans and their families with drug and alcohol addiction. They also offer services for those struggling with mental and behavioral health issues.

Whether you just have an unhealthy relationship with substance use or have a life altering addiction, they’ll help you. They have counseling, group therapy and medications that can be matched to your specific needs.

They’ll also help with gambling addiction, tobacco use and unemployment problems. You can get peer support, help with maintaining your overall health, and community support. You can also get approved to receive evidence based medications to help with opioid, alcohol and tobacco use disorders.

At the VA they treat substance use disorder as a mental health condition. They use scientifically tested and evidence based treatment methods that are proven to be effective for most people. They provide treatment through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), motivational enhancement therapy (MET) or contingency management (CM).

CBT helps you develop more balanced and helpful thoughts about yourself and others as well as what the future brings. It can help you manage or refuse the urge to use substances. It also encourages you to use a problem solving approach to unhealthy substance use and set better personal goals.

MI sessions are conversations between you and your counselor to detect and strengthen the need for change. Together, you try to figure out why you need to make a change and the positive effects it will have on your life.

MET is similar to MI but just focuses on changing or stopping unhealthy substance use and nothing else. CM is a type of therapy where you’ll receive incentives for abstaining from substance use, and the more consistent you are the more incentives you receive.

What I really like about this treatment center is that they understand the needs of veterans. They use this knowledge to do their best to provide the specific help each person needs.