VA Healthcare Systems of Connecticut - Substance Abuse Treatment Program

They treat people at inpatient residential, inpatient hospital, outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

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

They prescribe methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in West Haven.

They treat adolescents. A program built for a 17 year old is not the same program as the adult one, so ask which of the two they offer in West Haven.

West Haven has 19 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

Nearly every plan includes something for this, and the detail is in which level of care it will approve. Two centers can quote very different amounts against the same plan, which is reason enough to check more than one. Ask whether the center bills your plan directly or expects you to claim it back afterward.

A bed is not something anyone can hold for you on a maybe, which is most of why lists exist. Many programs start the admissions paperwork during the wait, so the day a bed opens is not spent on forms. Ask what the wait is at every level of care, not only the one you called about.

Usually there is a route through this that keeps the job, and which route depends on the level of care. An employer is generally entitled to dates and a clinician's confirmation, not to a diagnosis. Read your own leave policy before telling anybody anything.