Healthcare for the Homeless Houston

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Houston, 3.0 miles away.

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which is worth confirming before a first visit because Houston has 8 other centers and not all of them do.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Houston.

Older adults, plus young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64. Ask how the groups are arranged in Houston, because a wide age range often still means one room.

Treatment that involves the household tends to hold up better than treatment that does not. A household that changes nothing while one person is treated puts that person back into the same week they left. Ask whether family sessions carry on after the main program ends.

The usual shapes are a few days of detox, a month or so of residential care, then outpatient care for longer. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Find out whether the program can be extended before you are in it.

Privacy rules on this are tighter than most people expect, and they apply from the first phone call. 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.