Mississippi Drug and Alcohol

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 4 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

They handle detox for alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Ask how many days theirs lasts, because that varies more between places than people expect and Biloxi has 4 other centers to compare.

They treat older adults, along with young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64, which is a wider range than most places listed near Biloxi cover.

They work in Spanish as well as English. Ask whether the group sessions in Biloxi are in Spanish too, or only the one to one ones.

They offer a pregnancy program. Call rather than wait, because this is the one case where timing changes the options and Biloxi may not have a second place set up for it.

It means a mental health condition alongside substance use, which describes most people in treatment. An integrated program treats both in one place. A sequential one treats the substance use first, which leaves a gap. Ask what happens if the psychiatric side turns out to need more than the program planned for.

It is a screening conversation, and the answers decide what gets suggested. The person answering is usually trained to screen rather than to treat, so a full history is not needed yet. Ask what the next step is and who is responsible for arranging it.

A return to use is treated as information: something in the plan was not holding. A different level of care is often the right response rather than a repeat of the same program. Ask whether the program takes somebody back directly or wants a fresh assessment first.