Northland Recovery Center

They treat people at outpatient, telemedicine, inpatient residential and detox. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Grand Rapids.

People dealing with past trauma are one of the 5 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

Grand Rapids has 11 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

They treat both. Depression and anxiety alongside a substance are common rather than unusual, and one place handling the two together beats two handling one each. Grand Rapids has 6 other centers if this one cannot.

They do not prescribe. If buprenorphine or methadone is part of what you need, say so on the call and ask who they refer to in Grand Rapids.

The useful questions are the ones answerable with a fact: who prescribes, what the schedule is, what follows it. Who delivers the therapy matters: licensed clinicians and counselors in training are not the same thing. Ask what happens if somebody wants to leave partway through, because the answer says a lot about how a place is run.

Most of the programs listed here take mandated clients. People who arrive under an order do about as well as people who arrive voluntarily, which surprises most people. Ask who signs the completion paperwork and how long it takes.