Mission Treatment Services Inc - San Diego

They provide outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and La Jolla is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

They provide detox for 5 substances: opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and San Diego has 8 other centers.

Alongside this, San Diego has 98 NA meetings and 748 free AA meetings.

Yes, they treat people in Spanish. Whether that means a counselor who speaks it or an interpreter is worth asking, and San Diego has 8 other centers to ask the same of.

They take court referrals, which usually means they are used to the reporting side of it. Courts in San Diego send people to places set up for it rather than to any opening.

Nobody stays overnight. Outpatient means you keep sleeping at home and come in for sessions, and the closest residential option is 3.4 miles away in San Diego.

Nothing should change without a prescriber looking at it, and a good program works that way. Pill organizers are often refused at the door, because medication has to arrive labeled. Ask whether the program has its own prescriber or works with yours.

Pack for about a week, keep the documents where you can hand them over at the door, and expect the bag to be searched. Clothing rules exist at many places, usually about what is written on it rather than what it costs. Ask whether there is a laundry, because the answer halves what you need to bring.