Lund Family Center

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 Burlington is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Burlington, about a mile away.

South Burlington has 13 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

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

They are outpatient. If someone needs to be away from where they are using, Burlington has the nearest beds, under a mile away.

Compare what each program provides rather than how each one describes itself. A program that cannot tell you its staff to client ratio usually has a reason. Ask for the daily schedule in writing rather than a description of it.

The treatment is the same. What changes is that attendance is reported to whoever ordered it. What gets reported is attendance and completion, not what you said in a session, unless the order says otherwise. Ask exactly what gets reported, to whom, and how often.

Expect days for withdrawal management, weeks for a residential program, and months for anything outpatient. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Ask whether detox time counts inside the program length or is added to it.