TAJ Treatment Centers Inc

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

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

They offer a pregnancy program. Call rather than wait, because this is the one case where timing changes the options and Pasadena may not have a second place set up for it.

They treat adults up to and past 65. Ask whether the group sessions are mixed age, because in Pasadena that often means one room rather than two.

They treat mental health alongside the substance use, so both sides are handled in one place. Ask whether the psychiatric side is on site, because in Pasadena that is the part that varies.

Four questions separate most programs: who prescribes, what the step down is, what it costs, and who it is built for. A program that answers precisely about its clinicians and vaguely about its results is behaving well. Ask what license is held by the person who would actually be treating you.

List price and what you actually pay are different numbers, and only the second one matters to you. A quote is usually a daily rate times an expected length, so the cheaper number sometimes just buys fewer days. Ask what the daily rate becomes if coverage stops before the program does.

Many people are treated without leaving work at all, because outpatient programs are available evenings and early mornings. An employer is generally entitled to dates and a clinician's confirmation, not to a diagnosis. Read what your own policy says before you tell anybody anything.