SUDCC

They provide inpatient residential, inpatient hospital, outpatient, telemedicine and detox, which is the whole of what this address in Fort Belvoir is set up for.

They provide detox for 4 substances: opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines and cocaine. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Fort Belvoir has 8 other centers.

Yes, they offer a veterans program, one of 13 named programs at this address.

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

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Fort Belvoir.

It normally means continuing outpatient sessions, a prescriber if medication is involved, and free meetings. Free meetings, a prescriber and a weekly session are the usual three pieces of a plan that holds. Ask whether the aftercare is run by the program or handed to somebody else.

The useful questions are the ones answerable with a fact: who prescribes, what the schedule is, what follows it. Whoever answers the phone is not always whoever operates the program, because referral services are common in this field. Write down four questions and ask every place the same four.

Both can be treated at once, and programs that do are described as integrated or co-occurring. An integrated program handles both with one team, which removes the handover where people get lost. Ask whether both conditions are handled by one team or passed between two.