Connections Counseling Services

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 Provo is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Provo, 1.8 miles away.

They do not prescribe medication. For opioid use that is worth knowing before you choose, because medication changes what the first weeks look like, and Orem has 8 other centers.

They have a program for veterans. Ask whether the group is veterans only, because for a lot of people that is the point of it and in Orem it may be mixed.

They are outpatient. If someone needs to be away from where they are using, Provo has the nearest beds, 1.6 miles away.

Aftercare is the step down: less intensive, longer lasting, and often the difference that lasts. Alumni programs exist at many centers and are usually free to people who went through them. Ask what the discharge plan looks like before you choose the program.

Compare the specifics, because almost every center describes itself in the same words. What a program arranges for the weeks after discharge says more about it than anything in its own description. If a place pressures you to commit on the call, that is information.

Medicaid and most commercial plans include treatment, with different rules about what they approve. A plan can approve the detox and then decline the residential stay that was meant to follow it. If a plan declines a level of care there is an appeal, and appeals are used more often than people expect.