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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Costa Mesa, about a mile away.

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

Some of what they do can happen remotely. Ask which parts, because it is rarely all of them and the 8 centers near Newport Beach differ on it.

They treat adults up to and past 65. Ask whether the group sessions are mixed age, because in Newport Beach that often means one room rather than two.

It normally means continuing outpatient sessions, a prescriber if medication is involved, and free meetings. Sober living is housing with rules rather than treatment, and the rules vary more than the brochures suggest. Ask who to ring at two in the morning, and get the number written down.

The paperwork, the medication in its labeled containers, and about a week of ordinary clothes. The usual banned list covers alcohol, anything containing it such as mouthwash, aerosols, sharp items and outside food. Ask for the written list before you pack, because every center's version differs.

Usually there is a route through this that keeps the job, and which route depends on the level of care. An employer is generally entitled to dates and a clinician's confirmation, not to a diagnosis. Ask about evening and weekend schedules before ruling treatment out on time grounds.