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Beacon Recovery is a UAB Medicine-affiliated outpatient substance use treatment program for adults and adolescents. The program offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to meet the individual needs and recovery goals of each patient. In addition to group therapy, patients receive individual counseling, connections to community resources, peer recovery support, and family services to help enhance the recovery process. To accommodate busy schedules, the program offers group sessions for adults in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

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Program Services

ProgramServicesCostAdmission
Adults
  • Comprehensive screening and assessment
  • Early intervention, 0utpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment
  • Individual, group, family therapy, and aftercare
  • Telehealth services for group and individual counseling
  • Group sessions in the morning, afternoon, and evening
  • Specialty groups (grief, trauma, financial fitness, intro to 12 steps, gender-specific, etc.)
  • Onsite psychiatric and primary health care
  • Opioid-specific interventions with medication-assisted treatment
  • Case management to connect patients to community resources
  • Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialists on staff

Program fees range from $0 to $100 per month and are set based on a sliding scale, depending on household income. There is no cost for treatment for individuals with full Medicaid coverage. The initial assessment is free – regardless of income – and no one is turned away due to an inability to pay. Beacon Recovery does not accept private insurance.

Medical services in the clinic, Beacon Integrated Healthcare, cost between zero and $100 per month, in addition to program fees. This includes medications for primary care, psychiatric services, and medications for opioid use disorder*.

*Medications for opioid use disorder (buprenorphine or naltrexone) are included for up to 6 months.

The first step is to complete an assessment. To schedule an appointment, call (205) 917-3733 (follow prompt 3 for Beacon Recovery and then prompt 1 for Assessment Center), or email beacon@uabmc.edu.
Adolescents
  • Outpatient and intensive outpatient levels of care for adolescents age 13-18
  • Comprehensive screening and assessment
  • Individualized recovery plans to meet the individual needs of each patient
  • School-based interventions
Program fees are determined by sliding scale. No one is turned away for an inability to pay. The first step is to complete an assessment. To schedule an appointment, call (205) 917-3733 (follow prompt 3 for Beacon Recovery and then prompt 1 for Assessment Center) or email beacon@uabmc.edu.

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