Harmony Place

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

They provide detox for 5 substances: opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Woodland Hills has 8 other centers.

Woodland Hills has 22 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

One of their programs is built for adult women, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is one of the 3 named here.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Woodland Hills.

Nothing should change without a prescriber looking at it, and a good program works that way. Where a program has no prescriber of its own, what you take stays with whoever already manages it. Ask whether the program has its own prescriber or works with yours.

There is no standard course. Programs are built in fixed lengths and people move between them. The early part of any program is mostly stabilizing, and the work people picture when they think of treatment starts after that. Ask how many hours a week an outpatient program actually takes, because it varies widely.

There is usually a way to do this that does not cost you the job, and it is worth asking before assuming. A documented medical leave is a stronger position than an unexplained absence, which is the comparison that matters. Look at what your own employer offers before you tell anyone anything.