Advantage Behavioral Health Systems

They provide outpatient, inpatient residential, telemedicine and detox, which is the whole of what this address in Athens is set up for.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Athens.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them under a mile away in Athens.

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Athens.

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

The month after a program is the one that needs a schedule, and aftercare is that schedule. Free meetings, a prescriber and a weekly session are the usual three pieces of a plan that holds. Ask what the discharge plan looks like before you choose the program.

Having both is the ordinary case, and the programs built for it are described as integrated. An integrated program treats both in one place. A sequential one treats the substance use first, which leaves a gap. Ask how often you would see a prescriber, not only whether one exists.

The records are protected, and the protection is specific to addiction treatment rather than general. Who sees a record inside a program is also limited, usually to the team treating you. Ask who the center is allowed to speak to, and make sure the answer matches what you want.