Community Counseling Center

They are set up for 2 levels: outpatient and telemedicine. Of the 5 centers within 14 miles of Cape Girardeau, 2 offer a bed.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Cape Girardeau offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

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

There are 5 more within a short drive of Cape Girardeau, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

They do video appointments, which matters if Cape Girardeau is a drive for you.

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

The list should include anything stopped recently, because a recent change matters as much as a current dose. Where a program has no prescriber of its own, what you take stays with whoever already manages it. Ask who writes your prescriptions after discharge, because a gap at that point is a common problem.

Inpatient is the higher level of care, and higher is not automatically better for everyone. The middle levels, several hours a day with your own bed at night, are the ones most people have never heard of. Ask what happens if the level you start at turns out to be the wrong one.