Harbor Care - Cynthia Day Family Center

They treat people at inpatient residential and outpatient. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Merrimack, 3.4 miles away.

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

They offer a program for people who are pregnant or just postpartum, which not every center around Nashua does.

Nashua has 26 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

Dual diagnosis means both are present, and treating them together is the current standard of care. An integrated program treats both in one place. A sequential one treats the substance use first, which leaves a gap. Ask whether there is a psychiatrist or a prescriber on the team, and how often you would see them.

Most places run something for families, and the quality of it is one of the clearer differences between two centers. What a center can tell a family member is limited by privacy law, and that limit holds even for a parent of an adult. Ask what exists for the family separately from the person being treated.

Treatment records for substance use are held under a federal rule that is stricter than the one covering ordinary medical records. There are narrow exceptions, including a medical emergency and a court order, and they are narrower than people assume. Ask what a program would say if somebody rang it asking about you.