SIU Center for Family Medicine

They offer outpatient and telemedicine. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Taylorville has 1 other center within 14 miles.

They do not detox, and nothing inside 14 miles of Taylorville does either. Ask them where they send people, because a place without one usually has somewhere it refers to.

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which not every place around Taylorville does.

They offer a program for people dealing with past trauma, which is worth confirming on the call rather than assuming. A named program and one with a place free this month are different things, and Taylorville has 1 other center to ask.

Some of what they do can happen remotely. Ask which parts, because it is rarely all of them and the 1 center near Taylorville differ on it.

They normally continue, and a prescriber at the program reviews the whole list on arrival. Pill organizers are often refused at the door, because medication has to arrive labeled. Bring the containers with the labels on, not a bag of loose pills.

It is a screening conversation: what is being used, how much, your health, and what you are covered for. The call can be made by a relative, and intake lines deal with that constantly. Describe what you are actually dealing with, not the version that sounds manageable.

The practical question is not severity but what you go home to each night. The higher level is not automatically the better one, and being placed above what you need is its own problem. Ask for an assessment rather than a recommendation, then ask what the assessment found.