Daymark Recovery Services

They provide inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Thomasville is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Coming off alcohol without medical supervision can be dangerous, which is why it matters that this is one of 1 places near Lexington that do it.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 7 centers near Lexington, not all of them do.

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Lexington.

Lexington has 49 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

The useful questions are the ones answerable with a fact: who prescribes, what the schedule is, what follows it. What a program arranges for the weeks after discharge says more about it than anything in its own description. Ask for the daily schedule in writing rather than a description of it.

Most of the programs listed here take mandated clients. Missing sessions has consequences beyond the clinical ones, which is a real difference in practice. Tell the program about the deadline in the order at the start, not near it.

Often, and treatment frequently qualifies as medical leave rather than something you have to explain in detail. Colleges handle this through a medical leave process, which normally leaves a better record than an incomplete semester. Ask whether the program can start on a date that fits a leave request.