Calais Comprehensive Treatment Center - Washington County

They offer outpatient and detox. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Calais has 3 other centers within 14 miles.

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

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.

Outpatient only. Nobody stays overnight, so the week is built around appointments you travel to in Calais.

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

The useful questions are the ones answerable with a fact: who prescribes, what the schedule is, what follows it. A center that asks you a lot of questions before recommending anything is behaving correctly. Ask for the daily schedule in writing rather than a description of it.

There is a role, and it is a bigger one than most people expect going in. Living with somebody in early recovery changes a household's routine, and family sessions are where that gets planned. Ask about the release of information early, because without it the updates stop.

A program needs your signature before it discusses you with anyone at all. The strength of the rule exists because people avoided treatment when they could not rely on it. Ask whether messages can be left for you and who is allowed to leave them.