FamilyCare Health Centers

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

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Charleston.

Adult women are one of the 2 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

They work in 1 language beyond English: Sign language. Ask whether the group sessions in Charleston are in it too, or only the one to one ones.

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 Charleston.

It is everything arranged for after the program, and it lasts longer than the program does. Free meetings, a prescriber and a weekly session are the usual three pieces of a plan that holds. Ask what is scheduled for the first seven days after discharge.

Most programs include family sessions, and many treat the family as part of the work rather than as visitors. A release of information, signed by the patient, is what opens that door, and it can be narrow or wide. Call (844) 822-5800 and someone can talk it through with you, whether or not you are the person in treatment.

The number quoted is almost always the first block, and the whole arc of treatment runs longer than that block. The early part of any program is mostly stabilizing, and the work people picture when they think of treatment starts after that. Ask what the program length is and what happens if more time is needed.