La Frontera Center

They offer inpatient residential, telemedicine and outpatient. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 8 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Tucson offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

They have a program for veterans. Ask whether the group is veterans only, because for a lot of people that is the point of it and in Tucson it may be mixed.

Alongside this, Tucson has 82 NA meetings and 680 free AA meetings.

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Tucson.

Inpatient means the treatment holds the whole day. Outpatient means it has to fit around one. Where someone is using in the house, or on the route home, outpatient care is working against the current. Ask whether they offer the middle levels, because many only offer the two ends.

It means a doctor is involved and a prescription is part of what holds the first months together. Treatment that combines medication with counseling holds people in care longer than either on its own. Ask what happens if the first medication does not suit you.

Much of what people pack gets held at the door. The paperwork and the medication are what you genuinely need. Arrival normally involves a bag search, and the list of what is not allowed is longer than people expect. Put the medication list together before anything else, and include doses and who prescribed them.