VA Pacific Islands Health Care System – Kauai CBOC

The VA Pacific Islands Health Care System – Kauai CBOC is a clinic in Lihue, Hawaii. It’s an outpatient clinic where they treat a wide range of medical and mental health needs including drug and alcohol addiction.

The VA’s outpatient treatment is mostly a combination of individual therapy and group therapy. While working with a therapist one on one you’ll have group sessions where you can talk through the challenges of recovery with others who are in your shoes, and you can build a supportive community for each other. To help your loved ones understand your addiction and to start healing your relationships they provide marriage counseling and family counseling, too.

In some cases this VA might also provide medication assisted treatment or MAT. Especially for opioid addiction, MAT can help you by lowering your cravings and physical withdrawal symptoms. This makes you less likely to relapse while you’re working through the mental and emotional aspects of addiction.

This Lihue clinic also can connect you with the VA’s full suite of addiction treatment services. Depending on what you need that could include inpatient or residential rehab along with medically managed detox and intensive outpatient programs. The VA has programs for specialized needs and communities as well, like women veterans and veterans who are homeless. Plus they can treat mental health conditions that affect your addiction too.

Of course as a VA clinic this treatment center is only for military members and veterans and their families. But they can coordinate your addiction treatment with your primary care doctor and other providers in the VA.

When it comes to client feedback this treatment center has received excellent reports. Clients here say that it’s the local staff that makes the difference. They mention that the staff here are both compassionate and efficient so they get attentive and friendly care while also getting into and out of their appointments on time.