Addiction treatment glossary
Every facility listing on this site is built from 313 SAMHSA service codes across 33 categories. This is what each one means.
Type of Care
Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)
- Department of Defense
- Federal Government
- Indian Health Services
- Local, county, or community government
- Private for-profit organization
- Private non-profit organization
- State government
- Tribal government
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
License/Certification/Accreditation
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
- Council on Accreditation (COA)
- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
- Federally Qualified Health Center
- Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP)
- Hospital licensing authority
- Mental Health Clinic or Mental Health Center
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- SAMHSA certification for opioid treatment program (OTP)
- State department of health
- State mental health department
- State substance use treatment agency
- The Joint Commission
Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted
- Cash or self-payment
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- Community Service Block Grants
- County or local government funds
- Federal Grants
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- No payment accepted
- Other State funds
- Private health insurance
- Private or Community foundation
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- State corrections or juvenile justice funds
- State education agency funds
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
- State welfare or child and family services funds
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- U.S. Department of VA funds
Payment Assistance Available
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Active duty military
- Adolescents
- Adult men
- Adult women
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Members of military families
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
- Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
- Persons with eating disorders
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Seniors or older adults
- Veterans
- Young adults
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Complete medical history/physical exam
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Professional interventionist/educational consultant
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
- Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- HIV testing
- Laboratory testing
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- STD testing
- TB screening
- Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
- Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Transitional Services
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
Recovery Support Services
Other Services
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
Service Setting
- Hospital inpatient detoxification
- Hospital inpatient treatment
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Long-term residential
- Outpatient
- Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
- Outpatient detoxification
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Partial hospitalization/day treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Residential detoxification
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Short-term residential
Detoxification (medical withdrawal) Services
- Alcohol Detoxification
- Benzodiazepines Detoxification
- Cocaine Detoxification
- Medication routinely used during detoxification
- Methamphetamines detoxification
- Opioids detoxification
Education and Counseling Services
- Family counseling
- Group counseling
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Individual counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Substance use disorder education
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Medical Services
- Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
- Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Facility Smoking Policy
Age Groups Accepted
Sex Accepted
Exclusive Services
- Alcohol use disorder clients only
- Opioid use disorder clients only
- Serves only DUI/DWI clients
- Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients
Language Services
- American Indian or Alaska Native languages
- Other languages (excluding Spanish)
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Spanish
Facility Type
- Community mental health center
- Multi-setting mental health facility (e.g., non-hospital residential plus either outpatient and/or partial hospitalization/day treatment)
- Other residential treatment facility
- Outpatient mental health facility
- Partial hospitalization/day treatment
- Psychiatric hospital
- Residential treatment center (RTC) for adults
- Residential treatment center (RTC) for children
- Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital
- State hospital
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility
Other Languages
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping not permitted
- Vaping permitted in designated area
- Vaping permitted without restriction
Ancillary Services
- Acupuncture
- Assertive community treatment
- Assisted Outpatient Treatment
- Case management service
- Child care for clients' children
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Early intervention for HIV
- Education services
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Integrated primary care services
- Intensive case management
- Legal advocacy
- Mental health services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Residential beds for clients' children
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Therapeutic foster care
- Transportation assistance
- Vocational rehabilitation services
Hospitals
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
- Buprenorphine used in Treatment
- Methadone used in Treatment
- Naltrexone used in Treatment
External Opioid Medications Source
- In-network prescribing entity
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
- Does not treat alcohol use disorder
- Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder
- This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- In-network prescribing entity
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
- Buprenorphine detoxification
- Buprenorphine maintenance
- Does not treat opioid use disorders
- Does not use MAT for opioid use disorders
- Federally-certified Opioid Treatment Program
- Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
- Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
- Methadone detoxification
- Methadone maintenance
- Prescribes buprenorphine
- Prescribes naltrexone
- Relapse prevention with naltrexone
- Use methadone/buprenorphine for pain management or emergency dosing
Pharmacotherapies
- Acamprosate (Campral®)
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Brexpiprazole
- Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
- Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Buprenorphine without naloxone
- Cariprazine
- Chlorpromazine
- Clonidine
- Clozapine
- Disulfiram
- Droperidol
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- IIoperidone
- Lofexidine
- Loxapine
- Lurasidone
- Medication for mental disorders
- Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
- Medications for HIV treatment
- Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
- Methadone
- Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
- Naltrexone (oral)
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Olanzapine
- Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
- Paliperidone
- Perphenazine
- Pimozide
- Prochlorperazine
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Thioridazine
- Thiothixene
- Trifluoperazine
- Ziprasidone
Treatment Approaches
- 12-step facilitation
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
- Activity therapy
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive remediation therapy
- Community reinforcement plus vouchers
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Ketamine Infusion Therapy
- Matrix Model
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Trauma-related counseling