Hershel Woody Williams VAMC - Outpatient Treatment Program

They provide inpatient residential, inpatient hospital, outpatient, telemedicine and detox, which is the whole of what this address in Huntington is set up for.

They provide detox for 3 substances: opioids, alcohol and benzodiazepines. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Huntington has 8 other centers.

Huntington has 16 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

Veterans are one of the 14 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

They treat both. Confirm it for the specific diagnosis rather than in general, because transitional services and recovery support services covers a lot of ground and Huntington may have a narrower service than a bigger city would.

They normally continue, and a prescriber at the program reviews the whole list on arrival. Whether a program employs its own prescriber is a concrete difference worth asking about early. Write the full list with doses and prescribers before you call anyone.

The questions are much the same wherever you call, because every intake line is screening for the same few things. Understating the amount is the most common mistake on that call, and it leads to the wrong level of care being offered. Ask what the next step is and who is responsible for arranging it.

It is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended, and it is standard care for opioid use. Alcohol use disorder has prescribed options of its own, which is worth raising because the phrase is usually explained in terms of opioids. Ask what happens to the prescription on the day the program ends.