Lifeline Connections - Bellingham Office

They offer outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Bellingham has 8 other centers within 14 miles.

The nearest other center is under a mile away, in Bellingham, and there are 8 inside 14 miles.

They treat adolescents. A program built for a 17 year old is not the same program as the adult one, so ask which of the two they offer in Bellingham.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Bellingham.

Bellingham has 50 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

Compare what each program provides rather than how each one describes itself. A center that asks you a lot of questions before recommending anything is behaving correctly. Ask what license is held by the person who would actually be treating you.

Both can be treated at once, and programs that do are described as integrated or co-occurring. Not every center has a prescriber for psychiatric medication, and that is a concrete difference to ask about. Ask what happens if the psychiatric side turns out to need more than the program planned for.

Partly, almost always. The size of the part is the thing to pin down. Coverage for detox is normally a separate question from coverage for the treatment that follows it. Ask for a benefits check rather than an estimate, and ask what the check does not include.