Limen House

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Wilmington, 3.5 miles away.

They treat pregnancy and the postpartum period, which matters because withdrawal in pregnancy is managed differently and not every place near Wilmington is set up for it.

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

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Wilmington.

There is usually a plan for afterwards, covering appointments, medication and somewhere to go each week. An alumni group, a weekly session and a prescriber are the three pieces most plans are built from. Ask how the medication prescription continues after discharge, and who writes it.

Compare what each program provides rather than how each one describes itself. Any place promising a specific outcome is telling you something about itself rather than about treatment. If a place pressures you to commit on the call, that is information.

There is normally a family component, and it is one of the better questions to put to two programs. A household that changes nothing while one person is treated puts that person back into the same week they left. If you are calling about someone else, say so at the start and the conversation will fit.