Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

They are set up for 5 levels: inpatient residential, inpatient hospital, outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Rancho Mirage, 5 offer a bed.

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

Rancho Mirage has 22 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them 2.6 miles away in Palm Desert.

They treat both. A diagnosis left untreated while the substance use is treated is the usual reason a first attempt does not hold, and Palm Desert is the nearest place to try instead if this one does not fit.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near Rancho Mirage, not all of them do.

What you take comes with you, in the original labeled containers, and is reviewed on arrival. Stopping a psychiatric medication abruptly can cause real harm, which is why this is never a decision to make alone. Keep whoever prescribes for you informed rather than assuming a handover happens by itself.

One of them takes the decision to use out of your hands for a while. The other leaves it with you. The middle levels, several hours a day with your own bed at night, are the ones most people have never heard of. Ask what the step down from residential care looks like at that center.