Avenues Recovery Center

They offer outpatient, inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Fort Collins has 8 other centers within 14 miles.

They provide detox for 5 substances: alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Fort Collins has 8 other centers.

Fort Collins has 18 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

They offer a program for people dealing with past trauma, which is worth confirming on the call rather than assuming. A named program and one with a place free this month are different things, and Fort Collins has 8 other centers to ask.

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Fort Collins.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone. Medication and counseling together is the standard of care for opioid use rather than an either or, and not every place near Fort Collins offers both.

The rule covers the first phone call too, before you are a patient and whether or not you ever become one. An authorization carries an end date and stops when that date passes, rather than running on indefinitely. Decide who you want kept informed before the day rather than during it.

You are rarely obliged to give a diagnosis to an employer, only a medical reason for leave. An employer is generally entitled to dates and a clinician's confirmation, not to a diagnosis. Ask whether the program can start on a date that fits a leave request.