Murray Fork Clinic

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential and detox. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 3 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Coming off alcohol without medical supervision can be dangerous, which is why it matters that this is one of 1 places near Laurinburg that do it.

They offer a program for veterans, which not every center around Laurinburg does.

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 Laurinburg.

Yes. They treat people in Spanish. Confirm it for the first appointment specifically, because in Laurinburg that can depend on who is rostered that day.

Expect days for withdrawal management, weeks for a residential program, and months for anything outpatient. Aftercare has no end date, and it is the part that runs alongside ordinary life. Ask what the longest and the shortest version of this program looks like.

One of them takes the decision to use out of your hands for a while. The other leaves it with you. Medical risk pushes toward inpatient care: withdrawal that needs supervision is not an outpatient problem. Ask whether the center offers the middle levels or only a bed and a weekly appointment.

Waits tend to be shortest at the levels of care people ask about least. Many programs start the admissions paperwork during the wait, so the day a bed opens is not spent on forms. Ask to be put on a cancellation list as well as the main one.