Council for Alcohol/DA Servs Inc - (CADAS)/Scholze Ctr for Adolescents

They are set up for 3 levels: inpatient residential, outpatient and telemedicine. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Chattanooga, 2 offer a bed.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 5 of the 8 centers near Chattanooga offer one at all.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near Chattanooga, not all of them do.

There are 8 more within a short drive of Chattanooga, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Chattanooga about a teenager is in the right place.

Chattanooga has 81 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

It ranges from nothing at all, in a state funded program, to figures that need a payment plan. Nonprofit and faith based programs sometimes cost a fraction of commercial rates, with longer waits attached. Ask what the daily rate becomes if coverage stops before the program does.

Bring the list and bring the containers, and expect a prescriber to go through both. A pain condition does not disappear during treatment and should be part of the conversation from the start. Ask whether there is a prescriber on site and how soon you would see them.