Royal AZ LLC

They are set up for 3 levels: inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Prescott, 4 offer a bed.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 2 of the 8 centers near Prescott offer one at all.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near Prescott, not all of them do.

Veterans are one of the 12 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them under a mile away in Prescott.

Two programs that read identically online often differ sharply once you ask about staffing. The programs that handle a co-occurring diagnosis and the ones that do not are a genuine fork in the road. Ask for the daily schedule, because it is the most revealing single document.

The usual shapes are a few days of detox, a month or so of residential care, then outpatient care for longer. The early part of any program is mostly stabilizing, and the work people picture when they think of treatment starts after that. Ask what happens on the last day, and what gets arranged before it.

Often, though residential care is reviewed far more closely than outpatient care. An employer that funds its own plan follows different rules from a state regulated one, and that changes who hears an appeal. Ask which level of care the plan has already approved, and for how many days.