Family Services of the Piedmont

They provide outpatient 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.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in High Point, under a mile away.

Some of what they do can happen remotely. Ask which parts, because it is rarely all of them and the 8 centers near High Point differ on it.

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

They take mandated treatment. What paperwork the court wants back is between you and whoever ordered it, and High Point has 8 other centers if the dates do not work.

Having both is the ordinary case, and the programs built for it are described as integrated. Treating one and postponing the other is the pattern that sends people back for a second attempt. Ask how often you would see a prescriber, not only whether one exists.

There is almost always a family role, and centers differ most in how early it starts. A relative can usually start the enquiry, book the assessment and hear the options before any decision is made. Ask what exists for a relative who is not ready to sit in a room with the person using.

Days for a detox, weeks for a residential stay, months for outpatient care. Some people cycle through more than one level of care, and that is the intended design rather than a failure. Ask what the program does when somebody needs more time than the block allows.