Substance Use Treatment in Keaau, HI
Big Island Substance Abuse Council
What Does Big Island Substance Abuse Council Offer?
Big Island Substance Abuse Council is a substance use treatment facility at 16-179 Melekahiwa Street, Keaau, Hawaii, offering detox, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and outpatient treatment. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Medication treatment: buprenorphine and naltrexone.
16-179 Melekahiwa Street
Keaau, HI 96749
SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: EH OP Facility; Hilo Mens TLP; Hilo Mens TLP 2; Pwwdc Tlp.
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 Big Island Substance Abuse Council
- Outpatient
- Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Residential detoxification
- Short-term residential
- Long-term residential
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
Medication Treatment
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
- Buprenorphine maintenance
- Prescribes buprenorphine
- Prescribes naltrexone
- Relapse prevention with naltrexone
- Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
- Disulfiram
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Buprenorphine without naloxone
- Naltrexone (oral)
- Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
- Clonidine
Detox Services
- Alcohol Detoxification
- Benzodiazepines Detoxification
- Cocaine Detoxification
- Methamphetamines detoxification
- Opioids detoxification
- Medication routinely used during detoxification
Who the Program Serves
- Adolescents
- Adult women
- Adult men
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Ages: Children/Adolescents
- Ages: Young Adults
- Ages: Adults
- Ages: Seniors
- Accepts: Female
- Accepts: Male
Language Services
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
Licensing and Accreditation
- State substance use treatment agency
- State department of health
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Treatment Approaches
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Motivational interviewing
- Matrix Model
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for tobacco use
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for mental disorders
- Complete medical history/physical exam
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
- Housing services
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Recovery coach
- Mentoring/peer support
- Employment counseling or training
- Case management service
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Transportation assistance
- Residential beds for clients' children
- Child care for clients' children
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to choose a rehab you can trust lists the questions to ask when you call, and addiction treatment in Hawaii lists the state's treatment agency.