North Charles Institute for Addictions - Medication Unit

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

They detox from opioids. Coming off opioids without medical supervision can be dangerous, which is why it matters that this is one of 2 places near Cambridge that do it.

Nobody stays overnight. Outpatient means you keep sleeping at home and come in for sessions, and the closest residential option is under a mile away in Somerville.

Cambridge has 32 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

They treat adults from 26 to 64 and young adults from 18 to 25. Ask whether the groups are split by age, because in Cambridge that can mean one mixed room rather than several.

A mental health condition alongside substance use is the common case rather than the complicated one. An integrated program handles both with one team, which removes the handover where people get lost. A program that cannot answer these questions is telling you something useful.

The phrase covers three medications, each working differently, each needing a prescriber. Not every center is licensed for every medication, so what is on offer varies more than the clinical picture does. Ask what happens to the prescription on the day the program ends.

The records are protected, and the protection is specific to addiction treatment rather than general. The form sets both who may be told and what they may be told, which are two separate choices. Ask how a claim through your insurance would appear, if that is the part that worries you.