Community Hospital of the Monterey - Peninsula/Recovery Center Services

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Seaside, 3.1 miles away.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them 2.5 miles away in Monterey.

They offer a program for clients with a mental health diagnosis as well, which not every center around Monterey does.

They provide outpatient care and not a residential stay, so there is no bed to wait for. The nearest place with one is in Seaside, 3.1 miles away.

It normally means continuing outpatient sessions, a prescriber if medication is involved, and free meetings. Where medication is part of the plan, the handover to a community prescriber is the gap to watch. Ask what the alumni side of it involves, because it is often the most useful free thing on offer.

There is normally a family component, and it is one of the better questions to put to two programs. Where children are involved, some programs can keep a parent and child together and most cannot. Ask what the family program actually consists of and how often it meets.

Returning to use after treatment is common enough that programs are built expecting it. Tolerance falls quickly during any break from use, which makes the stretch right after a program the riskiest one. Say what happened last time, because it is the most useful thing you can tell an intake worker.