FOCUS House

They treat people at outpatient, inpatient residential and telemedicine. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Lawrenceburg offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

They treat adults up to and past 65. Ask whether the group sessions are mixed age, because in Lawrenceburg that often means one room rather than two.

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

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Lawrenceburg.

Both get treated together at the programs that do this properly, by one team. Whether a psychiatrist sits on the team, and how often you would see one, separates programs here. Ask whether both are treated in the same place or one after the other.

Expect questions rather than a sales pitch, and expect them to be direct. Medical history matters here: seizures, pregnancy, heart problems and current prescriptions all change the plan. If the call goes badly, call somewhere else. They are not all the same.

The difference is where you sleep. Inpatient means you stay at the center, outpatient means you travel in for sessions. A residential stay is the easier thing to get approved when there is a documented medical reason for it. Say plainly who else is in the house and what they are using, because it changes the answer.