University of Maryland Medical Center

They are set up for 4 levels: inpatient hospital, outpatient, detox and telemedicine. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Baltimore, 2 offer a bed.

They provide detox for 1 substance: opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Baltimore has 8 other centers.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them a few streets away in Baltimore.

Baltimore has 233 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

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

The number quoted is almost always the first block, and the whole arc of treatment runs longer than that block. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Ask what the program does when somebody needs more time than the block allows.

Addiction treatment records carry a stronger legal protection than the rest of a medical file. Taking leave from work creates dates rather than a diagnosis, which is a meaningful difference. Where a court or a license is involved, ask exactly what gets reported and to whom.

Sometimes, and it depends far more on the level of care than on the center. Many programs start the paperwork while you wait, so the day a bed opens is not lost to admissions. Call (844) 822-5800 and someone can check several programs at once rather than one at a time.