Freedom Recovery Center

They provide outpatient and telemedicine, which is the whole of what this address in Ishpeming is set up for.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Ishpeming offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

3 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them about a mile away in Negaunee.

Outpatient only. Nobody stays overnight, so the week is built around appointments you travel to in Ishpeming.

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Ishpeming.

They treat pregnancy and the postpartum period, which matters because withdrawal in pregnancy is managed differently and not every place near Ishpeming is set up for it.

Plenty of programs accept referrals from a court, a probation officer or a child welfare agency. What gets reported is attendance and completion, not what you said in a session, unless the order says otherwise. Ask who signs the completion paperwork and how long it takes.

It is treatment that includes a prescription, most often buprenorphine, naltrexone or methadone. The objection that it swaps one drug for another misses the mechanism: a stable prescribed dose does not produce a high and does not escalate. Ask whether the medication can start during detox or only after it ends.