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They treat people at inpatient residential, inpatient hospital, outpatient, telemedicine and detox. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

They detox from opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 3 of the 8 centers near Jackson offer one at all.

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

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

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them under a mile away in Jackson.

Aftercare is whatever holds the weeks after a program ends, and it is the part people most often skip. Alumni programs exist at many centers and are usually free to people who went through them. Ask what is scheduled for the first seven days after discharge.

They normally continue, and a prescriber reviews the whole list rather than applying a rule to it. Whether a program employs its own prescriber is a concrete difference worth asking about early. Write the list with doses and prescriber names before the first call.

Expect questions rather than a pitch, and expect them to be fairly direct. The call can end with nothing booked, and often does. Ask what the assessment after this call involves and whether it happens in person.