Recovery Unlimited Treatment Center

They offer outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Flint has 8 other centers within 14 miles.

They detox from opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Flint.

Flint has 1 free AA meeting as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

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

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

The useful comparisons are concrete: the level of care, whether there is a prescriber, what the aftercare is, and the cost. What a program arranges for the weeks after discharge says more about it than anything in its own description. Ask what kind of person this program would turn down, because a real answer exists.

Publicly funded residential programs tend to have the longest lists and the lowest cost. The longest lists tend to sit at the programs that cost the least, which is the genuinely hard part of this. Ask what the wait is at every level of care, not only the one you called about.

A medical leave is the normal route, and the reason given to an employer can stay general. A documented medical leave is a stronger position than an unexplained absence, which is the comparison that matters. Read your own leave policy before telling anybody anything.