Orchard Mountain Recovery

They are set up for 2 levels: outpatient and telemedicine. Of the 4 centers within 14 miles of Charlottesville, 1 offers a bed.

They do not offer one. Sorting detox out comes first, and Charlottesville is the nearest place that does it, under a mile away.

No. If medication matters to you ask directly, because it is the hardest thing to change later and not every place around Charlottesville offers it.

Charlottesville has 73 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

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

Some programs have a prescriber on site and some rely on yours, which is worth knowing in advance. Whether a program employs its own prescriber is a concrete difference worth asking about early. Write the full list with doses and prescribers before you call anyone.

Expect questions rather than a pitch, and expect them to be fairly direct. A call outside office hours often reaches an answering service rather than an intake worker, which is worth knowing before judging a program by it. Ask what they would recommend if money were not a factor, and then what they recommend given that it is.

There is a difference between asking for leave in advance and explaining an absence afterward, and the first position is much stronger. A medical leave of absence from a college is normally reversible, and usually a better record than a failed semester. Read what your own policy says before you tell anybody anything.