Veterans Rehab Centers in Detroit

How can veterans in Detroit get addiction treatment through the VA?

Veterans in Detroit who are enrolled in VA health care can request an addiction or mental health referral through the VA’s Detroit health care system, whose medical center stands on John R Street. Enrollment begins with an application for VA health care, which weighs service history and discharge status.

After that, a veteran can raise drinking or drug use with primary care or ask for a mental health visit. VA health care is a benefits program, not insurance. When it can’t meet its wait-time or drive-time standards, eligible veterans may be referred to community care with a non-VA provider.

Detroit-area listings report detox, residential care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient and medication for opioid use disorder. Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal can need medical supervision, so ask how a program handles it. Programs offering withdrawal care are listed under detox in Detroit.

Some providers also report services for PTSD, military sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury and chronic pain, listed under PTSD treatment in Detroit. Veterans and family members in crisis can dial 988 and press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line, and a veterans service officer can help with enrollment paperwork.

Will the VA, TRICARE or Medicaid pay for rehab in Detroit?

Coverage depends on status. VA health care serves eligible enrolled veterans. TRICARE covers active duty members, military retirees and covered family members, not separated veterans as a group. CHAMPVA covers certain veterans’ family members. Programs that list TRICARE appear on TRICARE rehab in Detroit.

Veterans who aren’t VA-eligible, for example after an other-than-honorable discharge, can still pay through Michigan Medicaid, the Healthy Michigan Plan, Medicare or private insurance. Wayne County residents on Medicaid, or eligible for it, can call Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network Access at 1-800-241-4949 for public substance use services. Programs that take Medicaid are gathered under Medicaid rehab listings.

Before choosing a private program in Detroit or the inner suburbs, ask whether it is a VA community care provider and whether it takes TRICARE. Ask too whether it runs a veterans-specific track rather than placing veterans in general groups. Joint Commission or CARF accreditation, family programming and languages show on many listings.

Where can Detroit veterans and families get help right now?

Detroit veterans and family members in crisis can reach the Veterans Crisis Line by dialing 988 and pressing 1, or by texting 838255. Under the COMPACT Act, eligible veterans in an acute suicidal crisis can get emergency care free, at VA or non-VA sites. In Wayne County, the DWIHN ACCESS & Crisis Line, 1-800-241-4949, runs 24/7, and a mobile crisis team answers at 1-844-462-7474.

The 36th District Court has run a Veterans Treatment Court since 2010, working with the VA medical center in Detroit. Programs that accept court referrals are listed under court-ordered rehab in Detroit. Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services offers free naloxone and test strips at its Well Wayne Stations. A veterans service officer can help with VA enrollment paperwork.

Families traveling in will find that Windsor International, across the border in Ontario, is the nearest airport for nearly nine in ten listings. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is nearest for the rest, and the median distance to the nearest airport is 10.4 miles. More options are on the Detroit rehab page.