MercyOne Horizons - Family Centered Recovery Program

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 opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Waterloo.

They offer a telemedicine option. What that covers varies, and a first appointment in Waterloo often still has to be in person.

Waterloo has 19 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Waterloo.

They treat both. Confirm it for the specific diagnosis rather than in general, because transitional services and recovery support services covers a lot of ground and Waterloo may have a narrower service than a bigger city would.

Nobody can give you a real number from a listing page alone, including us. A quote for 30 days and a quote for 90 days get presented the same way, so the length is the first thing to check. Ask whether medication is inside the quote, because it is a frequent extra.

Programs are commonly sold in blocks of 28 or 30 days, 60 days and 90 days, with outpatient care lasting longer and lighter. Two centers quoting the same number of days can mean very different hours of treatment inside them. Ask how many hours a week an outpatient program actually takes, because it varies widely.