Youth and Shelter Services (YSS)

They provide outpatient and telemedicine, which is the whole of what this address in Boone is set up for.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Boone offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

Outpatient only, and nothing within 14 miles of Boone has beds either, so a residential stay would mean traveling further than that.

They treat pregnancy and the postpartum period, which matters because withdrawal in pregnancy is managed differently and not every place near Boone is set up for it.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Boone.

Prescriptions are usually kept going, and changing one is a decision for a prescriber rather than a policy. A prescribed benzodiazepine or opioid painkiller is the usual complication, and it needs a plan rather than a rule. Take the labeled containers rather than a week of loose pills in an organizer.

The usual shapes are a few days of detox, a month or so of residential care, then outpatient care for longer. The early part of any program is mostly stabilizing, and the work people picture when they think of treatment starts after that. Ask what the schedule is day by day, because that is what you will be living.

There is a difference between asking for leave in advance and explaining an absence afterward, and the first position is much stronger. Federal medical leave covers employers above a staff threshold and employees who have been there long enough, so it does not reach everyone. Ask whether a schedule outside working hours exists before ruling treatment out.