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

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines and opioids. Coming off alcohol without medical supervision can be dangerous, which is why it matters that this is one of 1 places near Amityville that do it.

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Amityville.

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

Yes. Court ordered treatment is one of the things they take, and one of 8 things they offer a named program for.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near Amityville, not all of them do.

One of them takes the decision to use out of your hands for a while. The other leaves it with you. Intensive outpatient care at several hours a day is closer to a residential program than to a weekly appointment. Ask what happens if the level you start at turns out to be the wrong one.

Think documents and medication first, comforts second. An outpatient program needs almost none of this, just the documents and the appointment time. Ask what to do about prescriptions and mail arriving at home while you are away.