Aroostook Mental Health Center

They offer inpatient residential, telemedicine and outpatient. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 3 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

They do not detox. Withdrawal from alcohol or benzodiazepines in particular is a medical event, and the closest place set up for it is in Calais, about a mile away.

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

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which not every place around Calais does.

They treat older adults, along with young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64, which is a wider range than most places listed near Calais cover.

Calais has 2 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

It depends which level of care you are asking about, because they run on different clocks. Two centers quoting the same number of days can mean very different hours of treatment inside them. Ask whether detox time counts inside the program length or is added to it.

It is medical treatment for a medical condition, prescribed and monitored like any other. Alcohol use disorder has prescribed options of its own, which is worth raising because the phrase is usually explained in terms of opioids. Ask what happens to the prescription on the day the program ends.