Blue Heron Recovery

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and San Antonio has 8 other centers within 14 miles.

They provide detox for 5 substances: alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and San Antonio has 8 other centers.

They work in 1 language beyond English: Sign language. Ask whether the group sessions in San Antonio are in it too, or only the one to one ones.

San Antonio has 72 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

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

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone. Medication and counseling together is the standard of care for opioid use rather than an either or, and not every place near San Antonio offers both.

There is no single figure, and anyone who quotes one before asking you anything is guessing. Some centers hold a small number of funded places and do not advertise them, so the question is worth asking out loud. Ask what someone on your plan usually ends up paying, which is a different question from the list price.

They normally continue, and a prescriber reviews the whole list rather than applying a rule to it. Stopping a psychiatric medication abruptly can cause real harm, which is why this is never a decision to make alone. Bring the containers with the labels on, not a bag of loose pills.