Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Newport, about a mile away.

Newport has 35 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

They do not prescribe. If buprenorphine or methadone is part of what you need, say so on the call and ask who they refer to in Newport.

One of their programs is built for veterans, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is one of the 3 named here.

Outpatient keeps work, school and family going. Inpatient pauses them. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient fill the gap, with several hours of treatment a day and your own bed at night. Ask whether a center can carry out an assessment first rather than selling you a program.

A program treats the fact that you are there as confidential by default, including from whoever is paying. A release of information is how that changes, it is signed by you, and it can name one person and one purpose. You can ask all of this without committing to anything.

Outpatient care usually starts within days. A residential bed can be immediate or weeks out. The gap between deciding and starting is where most people fall away, so a shorter wait has value of its own. Ask what the wait is at every level of care, not only the one you called about.