Bridges of Iowa Inc

They offer inpatient residential, outpatient and telemedicine. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 8 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

No detox here. A center can still take someone after a detox elsewhere, which is the common order of events, and the nearest one is 3.7 miles away in Des Moines.

They offer a program for adult women, which is worth confirming on the call rather than assuming. A named program and one with a place free this month are different things, and Des Moines has 8 other centers to ask.

They prescribe naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near Des Moines, not all of them do.

They treat adults from 26 to 64 and young adults from 18 to 25. Ask whether the groups are split by age, because in Des Moines that can mean one mixed room rather than several.

It is the stretch after discharge, and it tends to decide whether the program holds. Free fellowship meetings run in most towns, cost nothing and need no referral, which is why they outlast paid programs. Call (844) 822-5800 if the program has ended and nothing was arranged.

Ask both places the same questions and the differences come out quickly. Any place promising a specific outcome is telling you something about itself rather than about treatment. Ask both places for the daily schedule and compare those rather than the brochures.

Usually there is a route through this that keeps the job, and which route depends on the level of care. Where a workplace runs an assistance program it usually sits outside the management chain and keeps what it is told. Ask the program what its letter to an employer actually says.