Behavioral Health and Recovery Servs - Recovery Assistance for Teens (RAFT)

They provide outpatient. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Atwater is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

No detox here. A center can still take someone after a detox elsewhere, which is the common order of events, and the nearest one is about a mile away in Merced.

Nobody stays overnight. Outpatient means you keep sleeping at home and come in for sessions, and the closest residential option is under a mile away in Merced.

Yes, they treat people in Spanish. Whether that means a counselor who speaks it or an interpreter is worth asking, and Merced has 4 other centers to ask the same of.

They do not prescribe medication. For opioid use that is worth knowing before you choose, because medication changes what the first weeks look like, and Merced has 4 other centers.

Ask three centers and you will get three different figures, because they are pricing three different programs. Medicaid covers addiction treatment in every state, though which centers accept it varies from county to county. Ask what the daily rate becomes if coverage stops before the program does.

Depression, anxiety, trauma and attention disorders turn up constantly alongside substance use. A diagnosis made during active use often changes once withdrawal is behind somebody. Ask whether the therapy is delivered by somebody licensed to treat the mental health side.

The point of the call is to work out which level of care fits, which takes a handful of questions. Having your insurance card in front of you shortens the whole thing considerably. Ask what the next step is and who is responsible for arranging it.