Serenity

They provide inpatient residential. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Denver is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Commerce City offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

They take mandated treatment. What paperwork the court wants back is between you and whoever ordered it, and Commerce City has 8 other centers if the dates do not work.

Commerce City has 38 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them a few streets away in Commerce City.

Ask three centers and you will get three different figures, because they are pricing three different programs. Some centers hold a small number of funded places and do not advertise them, so the question is worth asking out loud. Ask whether medication is inside the quote, because it is a frequent extra.

Nothing should change without a prescriber looking at it, and a good program works that way. A prescribed benzodiazepine or opioid painkiller is the usual complication, and it needs a plan rather than a rule. Ask what their position is on prescribed medication generally, because positions differ.

Most places run something for families, and the quality of it is one of the clearer differences between two centers. A relative can usually start the enquiry, book the assessment and hear the options before any decision is made. Ask whether family sessions carry on after the main program ends.