GHR Center

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

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

They take older adults as well as young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64. Ask who reviews existing prescriptions, because that is the part that matters most for an older adult in Norfolk.

Norfolk has 127 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

They take court referrals, which usually means they are used to the reporting side of it. Courts in Norfolk send people to places set up for it rather than to any opening.

Outpatient only, and nothing within 14 miles of Norfolk has beds either, so a residential stay would mean traveling further than that.

There is no standard course. Programs are built in fixed lengths and people move between them. A plan may approve days in batches and review before extending, so the length can change while you are in it. Ask what the program does when somebody needs more time than the block allows.

Confidentiality here is unusually strong by law, and that is a different thing from nobody noticing. 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.