Boulder Alcohol Education Center in Boulder, CO
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
Acamprosate (Campral®)
Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
Adults
Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.
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.).
No formal relationship with prescribing entity
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.
Comprehensive substance use assessment
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.
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.
Female
Female
Group counseling
Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.
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
Marital/couples counseling
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.
Adult men
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.
Naloxone and overdose education
Does not treat opioid use disorders
Nicotine replacement
Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.
Outpatient detoxification
Opioids detoxification
Outcome follow-up after discharge
Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
Outreach to persons in the community
Regular outpatient treatment
Private health insurance
Professional interventionist/educational consultant
Private for-profit organization
A business or other organization whose primary goal is making money (a profit).
Recovery coach
Are provided by mental health consumers and include mental health treatment or support services, such as social clubs, peer-support groups, and other peer-organized or consumer-run activities (e.g., consumer satisfaction evaluations of mental health treatment).
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.
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
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 not permitted
Smoking is not allowed.
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
State department of health
State mental health department
Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring critical mental health services in their respective state.
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.
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.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.
Treatment for gambling disorder
Treatment for other addiction disorder
Treatment for behavioral addictions or process addictions and occur when a person is dependent upon a specific behavior (i.e. gambling addiction, compulsive shopping disorder, etc.).
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.
Vaping not permitted
Veterans
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Veterans.
Adult women
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult women.
Contact and Location
3300 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 207, Boulder, CO, 80303
Phone: 303-444-6142