Karen Berbower and Associates PC

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

They do not detox. Withdrawal from alcohol or benzodiazepines in particular is a medical event, and the closest place set up for it is in Brighton, under a mile away.

They do not prescribe it. Ask them who they refer to, because somewhere among the 8 centers near Brighton will.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them under a mile away in Brighton.

They treat both. A diagnosis left untreated while the substance use is treated is the usual reason a first attempt does not hold, and Milford is the nearest place to try instead if this one does not fit.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Brighton about a teenager is in the right place.

Expect questions rather than a pitch, and expect them to be fairly direct. Honest answers get a better recommendation, and understating the amount is the most common way people get sent to the wrong level of care. Ask what the assessment after this call involves and whether it happens in person.

The difference is where you sleep. Inpatient means you stay at the center, outpatient means you travel in for sessions. Where someone is using in the house, or on the route home, outpatient care is working against the current. Describe the house you would be going back to, because that is the detail that decides it.