La Frontera Center – East Clinic – Tucson, Arizona
4891 East Grant Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85712
Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Insurance
Payment Options
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- Community Service Block Grants
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- Self-pay options
Addiction Resource Score
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9.2
Out of 10
Founded in 1968, La Frontera Center – East Clinic is a non-profit community organization dedicated to providing comprehensive care for children, adolescents, and adults dealing with mental health disorders, co-occurring conditions, and substance use disorders. The center offers a wide range of services to address the diverse needs of its clients, including:
- Health Promotion
- Domestic Violence Groups
- Homeless Outreach and Support
- Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
- Access to Primary Care Physicians
- Wellness and Recovery Groups
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for Substance Use
La Frontera Center – East Clinic’s commitment to holistic, inclusive care ensures that individuals receive the support and resources they need to achieve lasting recovery and well-being.
La Frontera Center – East Clinic maintains accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), reflecting its commitment to maintaining high standards of care and treatment excellence.
Treatment Options
The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:
- Mentoring/peer support
- Housing services
- Discharge Planning
- Employment counseling or training
- Self-help groups
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
- Recovery coach
The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Veterans
- Active duty military
- Members of military families
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Screening for tobacco use
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Complete medical history/physical exam
Treatment Modalities
- Individual psychotherapy
- Couples/family therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Activity therapy
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Intervention Services
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Motivational interviewing
- Anger management
- Matrix Model
- Relapse prevention
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
- Eating Disorder Treatment
- Experiential Therapy
- Life Skills
- Nutrition Therapy
Conditions Treated
- Alcoholism
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Co-occurring Disorders
Levels Of Care
- Outpatient
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Aftercare
License and Accreditation
- State mental health department
- State department of health
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Ancillary Services
- Assertive community treatment
- Case management service
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Education services
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Integrated primary care services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Suicide prevention services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Vocational rehabilitation services
- Acupuncture
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
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