Greater Boston Addiction Center

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient and telemedicine. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 8 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

No detox here. A center can still take someone after a detox elsewhere, which is the common order of events, and the nearest one is 2.8 miles away in Chestnut Hill.

They treat mental health alongside the substance use, so both sides are handled in one place. Ask whether the psychiatric side is on site, because in Needham Heights that is the part that varies.

Yes. They offer a program for pregnant and postpartum clients, which is one of 13 named programs here.

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Needham Heights.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Needham Heights about a teenager is in the right place.

Most residential programs are built around 30 days, which is a billing convention more than a clinical finding. Where a plan approves days in batches, the length you start with is not necessarily the length you get. Ask how many hours of treatment a day the length actually contains.

It means a doctor is involved and a prescription is part of what holds the first months together. Methadone is dispensed under rules of its own, often daily at first, which is a practical difference rather than a medical one. Ask what happens if the first medication does not suit you.