SMOC Behavioral Healthcare

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

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

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

Framingham has 20 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

No. If medication matters to you ask directly, because it is the hardest thing to change later and not every place around Framingham offers it.

They work in Spanish as well as English. Ask whether the group sessions in Framingham are in Spanish too, or only the one to one ones.

Bring the list and bring the containers, and expect a prescriber to go through both. Any medication you were prescribed by someone else is still their decision until a prescriber at the program takes it over. Write the full list with doses and prescribers before you call anyone.

Usually there is a route through this that keeps the job, and which route depends on the level of care. An employer generally needs the dates and a clinician's confirmation rather than the condition itself. Ask the center what paperwork they can provide for an employer, and what it will and will not say.