Newport Academy - Teen Treatment

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

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Pleasanton offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them 2.7 miles away in Pleasanton.

Yes. They treat ages 12 to 17, which only a minority of centers do. Pleasanton has 8 other centers, and an age range is the first thing to confirm on the call.

Pleasanton has 24 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

It is treatment that includes a prescription, most often buprenorphine, naltrexone or methadone. Treatment that combines medication with counseling holds people in care longer than either on its own. Ask whether counseling is included or billed separately, because the combination is the point.

It varies from same day to a month, and the only way to know is to ask on the day you are ready. Calling several places on the same day is the normal approach rather than an impatient one. Ask whether the wait changes if you are willing to start at a different level of care.

Much of what people pack gets held at the door. The paperwork and the medication are what you genuinely need. A written packing list exists at almost every residential program, and asking for it saves an argument at intake. Ask what the phone rule is in the first week specifically, not in general.