Start Treatment and Recovery Centers

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in New York, a few streets away.

They prescribe methadone and buprenorphine, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near New York, not all of them do.

Yes. They treat ages 12 to 17, which only a minority of centers do. New York has 8 other centers, and an age range is the first thing to confirm on the call.

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

Ask both places the same questions and the differences come out quickly. A program that cannot tell you its staff to client ratio usually has a reason. Ask for the daily schedule, because it is the most revealing single document.

The order decides what gets reported. The clinical plan is decided the way it is for anybody else. A deadline inside an order is easier to meet when the program hears about it on the first call. Ask what happens if you miss a session, so you hear it from them first.

It depends on the level of care. Outpatient care is designed to fit around a job. Where a workplace runs an assistance program it usually sits outside the management chain and keeps what it is told. Ask about evening and weekend schedules before ruling treatment out on time grounds.