ChangePoint Psychiatric Hospital

They provide inpatient hospital, telemedicine and detox. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Show Low is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

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 Lakeside has 6 other centers.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Lakeside.

6 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them 3.4 miles away in Show Low.

They offer a telemedicine option. What that covers varies, and a first appointment in Lakeside often still has to be in person.

They treat people in Sign language and American Indian or Alaska Native languages as well as English, which not every place around Lakeside does.

The list should include anything stopped recently, because a recent change matters as much as a current dose. A prescribed benzodiazepine or opioid painkiller is the usual complication, and it needs a plan rather than a rule. Ask who writes your prescriptions after discharge, because a gap at that point is a common problem.

Expect days for withdrawal management, weeks for a residential program, and months for anything outpatient. Some people cycle through more than one level of care, and that is the intended design rather than a failure. Ask how many hours a week an outpatient program actually takes, because it varies widely.