New Season Treatment Center - San Antonio

They are set up for 1 level: outpatient. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of San Antonio, 1 offers a bed.

They handle detox for opioids. Ask how many days theirs lasts, because that varies more between places than people expect and San Antonio has 8 other centers to compare.

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

They provide outpatient care and not a residential stay, so there is no bed to wait for. The nearest place with one is in San Antonio, 2.1 miles away.

They prescribe methadone and buprenorphine, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in San Antonio.

What you pay depends more on insurance than on which center you choose. Every state operates a publicly funded system with its own intake line, separate from anything a private center offers. Ask for the figure per week as well as per program, because extensions are billed by the week.

The medication review is part of intake, and it is one of the reasons intake asks so many health questions. Where a program has no prescriber, your own doctor stays in charge of what you take. Take the labeled containers rather than a week of loose pills in an organizer.

The gap between a return to use and picking the phone up again is the part worth shortening. A recurrence is treated as part of the condition rather than as a failure of character. Ask whether medication is on the table this time if it was not before.