Kaiser Permanente South Sacto - Addiction Medicine and Recovery Servs

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Elk Grove, under a mile away.

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

Elk Grove has 35 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

Yes, they treat people in Spanish. Whether that means a counselor who speaks it or an interpreter is worth asking, and Elk Grove has 8 other centers to ask the same of.

Both get treated together at the programs that do this properly, by one team. An integrated program treats both in one place. A sequential one treats the substance use first, which leaves a gap. Call (844) 822-5800 and someone can look specifically for programs that handle both.

The point of the call is to work out which level of care fits, which takes a handful of questions. The person answering is usually trained to screen rather than to treat, so the clinical detail comes at the assessment. Describe what you are actually dealing with, not the version that sounds manageable.

It happens to most people at some point, and it says nothing about whether this will work. A recurrence is treated as part of the condition rather than as a failure of character. Ask what the aftercare looks like, because its absence is a common gap.