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

They detox from opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Long Beach.

They treat adults from 26 to 64 and young adults from 18 to 25. Anyone outside that range is worth a call rather than an assumption, and Long Beach has 1 other center to try.

Long Beach has 24 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Long Beach.

Figures vary so widely between programs that an average would mislead you more than it helps. Many centers will spread a balance over months, and those terms are negotiable more often than people assume. Ask what the deposit is and whether any of it comes back if the program ends early.

Outpatient keeps work, school and family going. Inpatient pauses them. The higher level is not automatically the better one, and being placed above what you need is its own problem. Ask for an assessment rather than a recommendation, then ask what the assessment found.

Medicaid and most commercial plans include treatment, with different rules about what they approve. Approval can arrive in stages, with the detox cleared while the level of care after it is still under review. If a plan declines a level of care there is an appeal, and appeals are used more often than people expect.