Recovery Centers of America at Raritan Bay

They treat people at inpatient residential, outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

They provide detox for 5 substances: alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and South Amboy has 8 other centers.

The nearest other center is a few streets away, in South Amboy, and there are 8 inside 14 miles.

They offer a program for adult women, which is worth confirming on the call rather than assuming. A named program and one with a place free this month are different things, and South Amboy has 8 other centers to ask.

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into South Amboy.

Court ordered and voluntary treatment are the same programs, with different paperwork around them. A deadline inside an order is easier to meet when the program hears about it on the first call. Ask who signs the completion paperwork and how long it takes.

It depends which level of care you are asking about, because they run on different clocks. The 28 day figure comes from what insurers once reimbursed rather than from anything about how recovery works. Ask what the schedule is day by day, because that is what you will be living.

It is a prescription that steadies the ground while the rest of the treatment happens. The objection that it swaps one drug for another misses the mechanism: a stable prescribed dose does not produce a high and does not escalate. A prescriber is the only person who can judge which of the three fits your situation.