Montgomery Family Medicine Associates

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

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

They treat young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64. Anyone outside that range is worth a call rather than an assumption, and Silver Spring has 8 other centers to try.

They do not prescribe it. Ask them who they refer to, because somewhere among the 8 centers near Silver Spring will.

Silver Spring has 107 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

Compare what each program provides rather than how each one describes itself. A center that asks you a lot of questions before recommending anything is behaving correctly. Write down four questions and ask every place the same four.

Nobody can give you a real number from a listing page alone, including us. A quote is usually a daily rate times an expected length, so the cheaper number sometimes just buys fewer days. Get the figure in writing if you can, and ask what happens if you need longer than the program length.

A mental health condition alongside substance use is the common case rather than the complicated one. Treating one and postponing the other is the pattern that sends people back for a second attempt. Ask who to speak to if the mental health side gets worse mid program.