First Choice Community Healthcare

About First Choice Community Healthcare

First Choice Community Healthcare is a nonprofit, federally qualified community health center system with a location in Los Lunas, New Mexico, offering substance use disorder treatment as part of their broader primary care, dental, and behavioral health services. They have served the Greater Albuquerque area for more than 50 years across nine health centers and care for patients regardless of insurance status or ability to pay, including through a sliding fee discount program. Their approach rests on the idea that treatment and support, rather than blame or shame, are what break the cycle of addiction. Care teams at each site help people struggling with opioids, alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamines, benzodiazepines, and other substances.

For opioid use disorder, medical providers prescribe medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), paired with individual and group therapy designed specifically for MOUD patients. Behavioral health therapists and psychiatric nurse practitioners provide counseling and mental health treatment, while community health workers help patients and families with social needs and connect them to local resources. The program focuses on practical goals: staying alive, staying engaged in treatment, finding and keeping work, and reconnecting with family. Because recovery care sits alongside on-site pharmacy, lab, telehealth, and free help with Medicaid applications and renewals, patients can address their physical health and addiction in one familiar place.

About First Choice Community Healthcare

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