Integrated Care of Greater Hickory

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

They detox from opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 4 of the 7 centers near Hickory offer one at all.

Yes. They treat people in Spanish. Confirm it for the first appointment specifically, because in Hickory that can depend on who is rostered that day.

One of their programs is built for veterans, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is one of the 12 named here.

There are 7 more within a short drive of Hickory, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

Prescriptions are usually kept going, and changing one is a decision for a prescriber rather than a policy. Where a program has no prescriber, your own doctor stays in charge of what you take. Take the labeled containers rather than a week of loose pills in an organizer.

Treatment that involves the household tends to hold up better than treatment that does not. What a center can tell a family member is limited by privacy law, and that limit holds even for a parent of an adult. Ask what the family part of the program is called and who runs it, because that shows how seriously it is treated.

Anything from a week to a year, depending on what is being treated and how. Longer time in treatment is associated with better outcomes, which is why the step down to outpatient care matters. Ask how many hours of treatment a day the length actually contains.