Way Back in San Diego, CA
About This Facility
Directory information from SAMHSA N-SUMHSS 2025. This listing is not an endorsement or independent verification. Confirm current services, eligibility, and availability directly with the facility.
Services Listed in the Directory
Aftercare/continuing care
Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
Adults
Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.
Active duty military
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for active duty military persons.
Alcohol Detoxification
Anger management
Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.
Assistance with obtaining social services
Assistance obtaining government services provided for the benefit of the community designed to promote social well being (i.e. education, medical care, housing, etc.).
In-network prescribing entity
No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Other contracted prescribing entity
Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.
Benzodiazepines Detoxification
Used to help patients safely and successfully purge their bodies of Benzodiazepines, or Benzos, so that they can proceed to the next stage of addiction treatment.
Brief intervention
A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.
Cocaine Detoxification
Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for clients referred from the court/judicial system.
Case management service
Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.
Council on Accreditation (COA)
Partners with human service organizations worldwide to improve service delivery outcomes by developing, applying and promoting accreditation standards.
Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
Comprehensive substance use assessment
Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
Drug or alcohol urine screening
Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.
Discharge Planning
A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.
Detoxification
Treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse.
Domestic violence services, including family or partner
Provide safety assistance to victims of domestic violence.
Employment counseling or training
Advises, coaches, provides information to and supports people who are planning, seeking and managing their life/work direction.
Family counseling
A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Group counseling
Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.
HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
Access to education, counseling, and support groups to ‘at risk’ individuals and also individuals who have been infected with the virus.
Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
Any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.
Clients with HIV or AIDS
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with HIV or AIDS.
Housing services
Are designed to assist individuals with finding and maintaining appropriate housing arrangements.
Individual counseling
Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
Interim services for clients
Male
Male
Medicare
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.
Marital/couples counseling
Medicaid
A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.
Medication routinely used during detoxification
Methamphetamines detoxification
Mental health services
Assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.
Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.
Motivational interviewing
A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.
Members of military families
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Military families.
Adult men
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.
Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
Naloxone and overdose education
Opioids detoxification
Outcome follow-up after discharge
Outreach to persons in the community
Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
A program which helps low-income, uninsured, or underinsured patients who need help paying for all or part of their medical bills.
No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Mentoring/peer support
Private non-profit organization
A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.
Residential detoxification
Relapse prevention
A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.
Residential/24-hour residential
Long-term residential
Other contracted prescribing entity
Substance use treatment
Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).
Substance use disorder counseling
A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.
Substance use disorder education
Seniors or older adults
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Seniors or older adults.
Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced sexual abuse.
Self-help groups
Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.
State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
Screening for mental disorders
Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.
Smoking permitted in designated area
A designated area in which smoking is permitted.
Spanish
Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.
State substance use treatment agency
Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.
Social skills development
Screening for substance use
Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.
Screening for tobacco use
Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.
Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Refers to treatment services intended to help their clients’ ability to function as a result of substance use and/or mental disorders. By definition, serious mental illness is someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. For people under the age of 18, the term ‟Serious Emotional Disturbance” refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in the past year, which resulted in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities.
Transportation assistance
Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
Provides education, counseling, and guidance and support for individuals who are at risk for or potentially infected with the hepatitis virus.
Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.
Trauma-related counseling
Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).
Clients who have experienced trauma
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced trauma.
Veterans
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Veterans.
Vaping permitted in designated area
Young adults
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Transitional age young adults.
Young Adults
Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.
Contact and Location
2516 A Street, San Diego, CA, 92102
Phone: 619-235-0592