Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc

They treat people at outpatient, telemedicine and inpatient residential. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Lake City 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 Lake City it may be mixed.

It is on its own in this part of FL, which makes the waiting list question worth asking early.

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

They normally continue, and a prescriber reviews the whole list rather than applying a rule to it. Medication bought over the counter counts on the list, and leaving it off causes problems later. Write the full list with doses and prescribers before you call anyone.

There is a role, and it is a bigger one than most people expect going in. A relative can usually start the enquiry, book the assessment and hear the options before any decision is made. Ask what the visiting rules are in the first week and after it.

There is no fixed length. What is on offer tends to be a 30, 60 or 90 day program. Aftercare has no end date, and it is the part that runs alongside ordinary life. If you can only be away for a fixed period, say so at the start rather than partway through.