Health Care Resource Centers

They provide outpatient, telemedicine and detox, which is the whole of what this address in Woburn is set up for.

They provide detox for 1 substance: opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Woburn has 8 other centers.

One of their programs is built for people who are pregnant or just postpartum, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is one of the 2 named here.

Alongside this, Woburn has 32 NA meetings and 11 free AA meetings.

They prescribe methadone. Medication and counseling together is the standard of care for opioid use rather than an either or, and not every place near Woburn offers both.

The questions that separate two programs are concrete ones about staffing, medication and what happens afterward. Any place promising a specific outcome is telling you something about itself rather than about treatment. Ask what license is held by the person who would actually be treating you.

A program treats your presence there as confidential by default, including from whoever is paying. The protection reaches further than general medical privacy does, which is why a center will not take a message for you either. Ask what a program would say if somebody rang it asking about you.

A short list: id, insurance, medications, clothes, and the phone numbers you would not want to lose. Clothing rules exist at many places, usually about what is written on it rather than what it costs. Put the medication list together before anything else, and include doses and who prescribed them.