AltaPointe To Expand Addiction Treatment In Mobile, Alabama

AltaPointe's new Behavioral Health Crisis Center, located at 2401 Gordon Smith Drive in Mobile, can also help people who are trying to quit using alcohol, opioids, and methamphetamine with their withdrawal symptoms. After withdrawal is resolved, the Crisis Center can link individuals to community and inpatient treatment, based on need, upon discharge.

AltaPointe Health's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Luke Engeriser says both fentanyl and methamphetamines are on the rise along the Gulf Coast. Many street drugs are also being laced with methamphetamine or are actually methamphetamine disguised as something else like 3,4-Methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine (MDMA . . .