Carilion New River Valley Medical Ctr

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 5 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

They handle detox for alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Ask how many days theirs lasts, because that varies more between places than people expect and Christiansburg has 5 other centers to compare.

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 Christiansburg cover.

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

They offer a telemedicine option. What that covers varies, and a first appointment in Christiansburg often still has to be in person.

The block you are offered and the time the work takes are two different things, and that is the honest answer. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Ask what happens on the last day, and what gets arranged before it.

The legal protection on addiction treatment records is stronger than the one covering the rest of your medical file. An authorization carries an end date and stops when that date passes, rather than running on indefinitely. Ask what a program would say if somebody rang it asking about you.

Pack for about a week, keep the documents where you can hand them over at the door, and expect the bag to be searched. Clothing rules exist at many places, usually about what is written on it rather than what it costs. Ask what the phone rule is in the first week specifically, not in general.