Janus of Santa Cruz - Resid Trt Ctr and Special Care Unit

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

They provide detox for 5 substances: opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and methamphetamines. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Santa Cruz has 8 other centers.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Santa Cruz.

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

Santa Cruz has 60 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

They treat adults from 26 to 64 and young adults from 18 to 25. Ask whether the groups are split by age, because in Santa Cruz that can mean one mixed room rather than several.

Accreditation, staffing, medication policy and aftercare are the four that tell you most. The daily schedule is the most revealing document a program holds, and most will send it on request. Ask both places for the daily schedule and compare those rather than the brochures.

Coming back after a return to use is one of the most ordinary calls an intake line takes. A different level of care is often the right response rather than a repeat of the same program. Nothing about calling again is unusual. Intake lines hear it daily.