Gratitude Lodge

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

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

Veterans are one of the 11 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

The nearest other center is a few streets away, in Newport Beach, and there are 8 inside 14 miles.

Newport Beach has 137 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone. Medication and counseling together is the standard of care for opioid use rather than an either or, and not every place near Newport Beach offers both.

The questions that separate two programs are concrete ones about staffing, medication and what happens afterward. Paying a marketing company for referrals is common in this field, so who answers the phone is not always who treats you. Ask what kind of person this program would turn down, because a real answer exists.

The rule covers the first phone call too, before you are a patient and whether or not you ever become one. A release of information is how that changes, it is signed by you, and it can name one person and one purpose. Where a court or a license is involved, ask exactly what gets reported and to whom.