Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. (Memphis) VA Medical Center Claimed

About Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. (Memphis) VA Medical Center

Lt Col Luke Weathers Jr VA Medical Center is a comprehensive Veterans Affairs hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. They have inpatient and outpatient medical care here across numerous departments and that includes mental health and substance abuse. As a VA center, this facility exclusively serves service members and veterans and their families, and you can use your military benefits here.

When you come here for drug and alcohol addiction treatment, you’ll have a care coordinator who can help you identify what types and levels of care are right for you within the VA’s treatment program. Their medically managed detox is often the first step in a veteran’s recovery journey.

During your detox, experienced medical professionals can monitor your health and make sure you stay safe. They can also help to keep you as comfortable as possible amid your withdrawal symptoms by providing medications and other medical interventions. If you have opioid addiction, your detox might also involve medications like methadone and buprenorphine. These medications ease your physical addiction symptoms and gradually lower your dependence on opiates like heroin and fentanyl.

The VA has an extensive treatment program for addiction and mental health. After your detox, they can set you up with a full continuum of care for your recovery from residential rehab to intensive outpatient programs (IOP) to relapse prevention therapy.

Clients have a range of feedback at this treatment center. Some say their experiences here were positive, and that the staff were kind and conscientious. Others say they’ve had very long wait times for appointments and otherwise haven’t gotten the care they needed here. Some clients do point out that most of the issues here seem to come from being understaffed.