Ochsner Saint Anne General Hospital

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

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Coming off alcohol without medical supervision can be dangerous, which is why it matters that this is one of 2 places near Raceland that do it.

They treat adults up to and past 65. Ask whether the group sessions are mixed age, because in Raceland that often means one room rather than two.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone. Medication and counseling together is the standard of care for opioid use rather than an either or, and not every place near Raceland offers both.

They offer a program for veterans, which not every center around Raceland does.

It is the stretch after discharge, and it tends to decide whether the program holds. Having something scheduled for the first week back is better than having good intentions for it. Ask whether the center keeps treating you afterwards or hands you on.

The order sets the reporting. The clinical side is decided the same way it is for anyone. What gets reported is normally attendance rather than anything said in a session. Confirm the program is on the approved list before the first session rather than after it.

One of them takes the decision to use out of your hands for a while. The other leaves it with you. Where someone is using in the house, or on the route home, outpatient care is working against the current. Ask for an assessment rather than a recommendation, then ask what the assessment found.