Proyecto Primavera - Gardner Family Care Corporation

They are set up for 2 levels: outpatient and telemedicine. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of San Jose, 2 offer a bed.

No detox here. A center can still take someone after a detox elsewhere, which is the common order of events, and the nearest one is 2.2 miles away in San Jose.

They do not prescribe medication. For opioid use that is worth knowing before you choose, because medication changes what the first weeks look like, and San Jose has 8 other centers.

Yes, they treat people in Spanish. Whether that means a counselor who speaks it or an interpreter is worth asking, and San Jose has 8 other centers to ask the same of.

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 Jose that can mean one mixed room rather than several.

It is the stretch after discharge, and it tends to decide whether the program holds. Sober living houses are one option, they are not treatment, and the quality varies enormously between them. Ask what is scheduled for the first seven days after discharge.

Involvement is common, and so are limits on it, set by the person being treated. Al-Anon and Nar-Anon exist for the people around someone using, they are free, and they are separate from any treatment program. Ask what exists for the family separately from the person being treated.

Expect days for withdrawal management, weeks for a residential program, and months for anything outpatient. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Ask what happens on the last day, and what gets arranged before it.