FOY Wellness and Recovery

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Agoura Hills, a few streets away.

They do not prescribe. If buprenorphine or methadone is part of what you need, say so on the call and ask who they refer to in Agoura Hills.

Agoura Hills has 38 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

They offer a program for LGBTQ clients, which is worth confirming on the call rather than assuming. A named program and one with a place free this month are different things, and Agoura Hills has 8 other centers to ask.

Compare the specifics, because almost every center describes itself in the same words. Referral services and treatment providers both answer the phone, and knowing which you reached changes the call. Write down four questions and ask every place the same four.

What you pay depends more on insurance than on which center you choose. A center that takes your plan will usually quote your share rather than the full price, which makes two quotes hard to compare. Ask whether detox is included in the figure, because very often it is billed on its own.

Most places run something for families, and the quality of it is one of the clearer differences between two centers. A household that changes nothing while one person is treated puts that person back into the same week they left. Ask what the visiting rules are in the first week and after it.