Mental Health Care in Opelika, AL
East Alabama Medical Center
What Does East Alabama Medical Center Offer?
East Alabama Medical Center is a mental health facility at 2000 Pepperell Parkway, Opelika, Alabama, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.
2000 Pepperell Parkway
Opelika, AL 36801
Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.
Types of Care at East Alabama Medical Center
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Other State funds
- Private health insurance
- State education agency funds
- Cash or self-payment
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
- U.S. Department of VA funds
Crisis and Emergency Services
- Psychiatric emergency onsite services
- Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
Therapy and Treatment Approaches
- Activity therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
Who the Program Serves
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Ages: Children/Adolescents
- Ages: Young Adults
- Ages: Adults
Medications Used
- Chlorpromazine
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- Perphenazine
- Thiothixene
- Thioridazine
- Aripiprazole
- Clozapine
- IIoperidone
- Lurasidone
- Olanzapine
- Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
- Paliperidone
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Ziprasidone
- Nicotine replacement
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services
- Screening for tobacco use
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Suicide prevention services
- Education services
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- Laboratory testing
Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Alabama lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.