SCCD/Crossroads of Sanford

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

No. There is no detox listed near Sanford at all, so the first call is worth making to ask who they work with for it.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them about a mile away in Sanford.

They take court referrals, which usually means they are used to the reporting side of it. Courts in Sanford send people to places set up for it rather than to any opening.

They offer a telemedicine option. What that covers varies, and a first appointment in Sanford often still has to be in person.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Sanford.

Residential care is a bed and a program. Outpatient care is a schedule of appointments. A clinician settles this on risk, history and circumstances, and the assessment is a single appointment. Ask what happens if the level you start at turns out to be the wrong one.

Identification, insurance card, medications in their original labeled containers, and a week of ordinary clothes. An outpatient program needs almost none of this, just the documents and the appointment time. Put the medication list together before anything else, and include doses and who prescribed them.