Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc - Alachua County Sid Martin Bridge House

They are set up for 2 levels: inpatient residential and outpatient. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Gainesville, 1 offers a bed.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Gainesville, a few streets away.

There are 8 more within a short drive of Gainesville, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Gainesville.

They offer a pregnancy program. Call rather than wait, because this is the one case where timing changes the options and Gainesville may not have a second place set up for it.

What you pay depends more on insurance than on which center you choose. A quote is usually a daily rate times an expected length, so the cheaper number sometimes just buys fewer days. Ask what the total looks like with your plan and without it, and ask what the quote leaves out.

Bring the list and bring the containers, and expect a prescriber to go through both. Where a program has no prescriber of its own, what you take stays with whoever already manages it. Ask whether the program has its own prescriber or works with yours.

Your id, your card, your prescriptions, and the name of anyone the center is allowed to speak to. A notebook and a couple of books are allowed almost everywhere and are worth more than most of what people pack. Ask what to do about prescriptions and mail arriving at home while you are away.