Brentwood Hospital

They treat people at inpatient hospital, outpatient 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. Coming off opioids without medical supervision can be dangerous, which is why it matters that this is one of 2 places near Shreveport that do it.

There are 8 more within a short drive of Shreveport, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

They treat both. Confirm it for the specific diagnosis rather than in general, because transitional services and recovery support services covers a lot of ground and Shreveport may have a narrower service than a bigger city would.

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which is worth confirming before a first visit because Shreveport has 8 other centers and not all of them do.

Anything a program will put in writing is easier to compare than anything it only says on a call. Accreditation by a recognized body is a floor rather than a recommendation, and the absence of it is worth asking about. Ask what happens if somebody wants to leave partway through, because the answer says a lot about how a place is run.

The usual shapes are a few days of detox, a month or so of residential care, then outpatient care for longer. Aftercare has no end date, and it is the part that runs alongside ordinary life. Ask what the schedule is day by day, because that is what you will be living.

What a center can say about you to anyone is narrow, and it is narrow by default rather than on request. Taking leave from work creates dates rather than a diagnosis, which is a meaningful difference. Ask who the center is allowed to speak to, and make sure the answer matches what you want.