Mathers Recovery LLC

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 Dundee is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

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

Alongside this, Elgin has 18 NA meetings and 31 free AA meetings.

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

They work in Spanish as well as English. Ask whether the group sessions in Elgin are in Spanish too, or only the one to one ones.

Outpatient only. Nobody stays overnight, so the week is built around appointments you travel to in Elgin.

The two feed each other, which is why handling them separately tends to work badly. Not every center has a prescriber for psychiatric medication, and that is a concrete difference to ask about. Ask whether there is a psychiatrist or a prescriber on the team, and how often you would see them.

Detox is days, residential care is weeks, and outpatient care is months. Aftercare has no end date, and it is the part that runs alongside ordinary life. Ask what the program does when somebody needs more time than the block allows.