Somerset Treatment Services

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

They do not offer one. Sorting detox out comes first, and Middlesex is the nearest place that does it, 6.6 miles away.

Within 14 miles there are 8 other centers, across Bridgewater, Hillsborough and Middlesex.

They prescribe methadone and buprenorphine, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Somerville.

Somerville has 6 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

The list should include anything stopped recently, because a recent change matters as much as a current dose. Interactions are the reason the list is asked for, particularly with anything sedating. Write the full list with doses and prescribers before you call anyone.

Expect questions rather than a pitch, and expect them to be fairly direct. Where a program is not the right fit, a decent intake worker will say so and name somewhere else. Call (844) 822-5800 and that first conversation can happen now rather than being scheduled.

Inpatient takes you out of your life for a while. Outpatient treats you inside it. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient fill the gap, with several hours of treatment a day and your own bed at night. Ask what happens if the level you start at turns out to be the wrong one.