CleanSlate Centers

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Wyoming, 11 miles away.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Scranton.

They treat older adults, along with young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64, which is a wider range than most places listed near Scranton cover.

Some of what they do can happen remotely. Ask which parts, because it is rarely all of them and the 8 centers near Scranton differ on it.

Within 14 miles there are 8 other centers, across Jermyn, Wyoming and Factoryville.

Accreditation, staffing, medication policy and aftercare are the four that tell you most. A program that answers precisely about its clinicians and vaguely about its results is behaving well. Ask what kind of person this program would turn down, because a real answer exists.

Some programs have a prescriber on site and some rely on yours, which is worth knowing in advance. Stopping a psychiatric medication abruptly can cause real harm, which is why this is never a decision to make alone. Write the full list with doses and prescribers before you call anyone.