Northwest Counseling and Wellness Ctr

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Cedar Park, 5.3 miles away.

Austin has 67 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

Outpatient only. Nobody stays overnight, so the week is built around appointments you travel to in Austin.

There are 8 more within a short drive of Austin, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

It is a screening conversation: what is being used, how much, your health, and what you are covered for. The call can end with nothing booked, and often does. Ask what the assessment after this call involves and whether it happens in person.

It is medical treatment for a medical condition, prescribed and monitored like any other. The evidence for medication in opioid use disorder is strong enough that its absence from a program is worth asking about. Ask what happens if the first medication does not suit you.

A wait quoted on the phone is an estimate of a queue that moves, rather than a date you can plan around. The longest lists sit at the programs that cost the least, which is the genuinely hard part of this. Ask what you should do in the meantime, because a good program will have an answer.