Central Texas VA Healthcare System

They offer outpatient, inpatient residential, telemedicine, inpatient hospital and detox. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Temple has 2 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 Temple has 2 other centers.

Yes, they treat people in Spanish. Whether that means a counselor who speaks it or an interpreter is worth asking, and Temple has 2 other centers to ask the same of.

They take court referrals, so a program ordered by a court in Temple is something they handle.

They treat both, and the rest of what they are set up for is adult women, court referrals, hiv/aids, pain management, past domestic violence, past sexual abuse, past trauma and veterans.

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

The choice is normally made on medical risk and on what home looks like, in that order. Withdrawal from alcohol or from benzodiazepines can be medically dangerous, which pushes the choice toward supervised care. Ask what happens if the level you start at turns out to be the wrong one.

It is medical treatment for a medical condition, prescribed and monitored like any other. The objection that it swaps one drug for another misses the mechanism: a stable prescribed dose does not produce a high and does not escalate. Ask whether the medication can start during detox or only after it ends.