Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc

They offer inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Sault Sainte Marie has 2 other centers within 14 miles.

They detox from alcohol and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Sault Sainte Marie.

They offer a program for people dealing with past trauma, which not every center around Sault Sainte Marie does.

Older adults, plus young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64. Ask how the groups are arranged in Sault Sainte Marie, because a wide age range often still means one room.

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Sault Sainte Marie.

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

What comes next is the question to ask on the way in, not on the way out. Alumni programs exist at many centers and are usually free to people who went through them. Ask how the medication prescription continues after discharge, and who writes it.

Nothing should change without a prescriber looking at it, and a good program works that way. Where a program has no prescriber, your own doctor stays in charge of what you take. Ask whether there is a prescriber on site and how soon you would see them.