Riverbend/Formerly Lowell House Inc

They provide inpatient residential, which is the whole of what this address in Tewksbury is set up for.

They do not detox, and nothing inside 14 miles of Tewksbury does either. Ask them where they send people, because a place without one usually has somewhere it refers to.

It is on its own in this part of MA, which makes the waiting list question worth asking early.

One of their programs is built for adult men, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is the only one named here.

Older adults, plus young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64. Ask how the groups are arranged in Tewksbury, because a wide age range often still means one room.

Expect questions rather than a sales pitch, and expect them to be direct. Nobody needs a diagnosis to make this call, and most people making it do not have one. Ask what the assessment after this call involves and whether it happens in person.

The rule covers the first phone call too, before you are a patient and whether or not you ever become one. The protection reaches further than general medical privacy does, which is why a center will not take a message for you either. Ask for a copy of whatever release you sign, and read what it covers.

The paperwork, the medication in its labeled containers, and about a week of ordinary clothes. Chargers, razors and anything with a cord are often held and signed out when needed rather than kept in the room. Put the medication list together before anything else, and include doses and who prescribed them.