START Treatment and Recovery Centers - Fort Greene Clinic OTP

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

They detox from opioids. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 1 of the 8 centers near Brooklyn offers one at all.

They prescribe methadone and buprenorphine. Medication and counseling together is the standard of care for opioid use rather than an either or, and not every place near Brooklyn offers both.

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

Adult women are one of the 2 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

Marketing language is nearly identical across the field, so the comparison has to be made on specifics. A program that answers precisely about its clinicians and vaguely about its results is behaving well. Ask whether the person on the phone works for the center or for a referral service.

Most programs include family sessions, and many treat the family as part of the work rather than as visitors. What a center can tell a family member is limited by privacy law, and that limit holds even for a parent of an adult. Ask what the family part of the program is called and who runs it, because that shows how seriously it is treated.

Anything from a week to a year, depending on what is being treated and how. Some people cycle through more than one level of care, and that is the intended design rather than a failure. Ask what the schedule is day by day, because that is what you will be living.