Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Mental Health Service Chemical Dep Ctr

They treat people at inpatient residential, outpatient and telemedicine. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

They do not, and neither does anywhere else listed around Memphis. Withdrawal management and treatment are often two separate admissions, and this is one of those times.

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

They offer a program for veterans, which not every center around Memphis does.

There are 8 more within a short drive of Memphis, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

What comes next is the question to ask on the way in, not on the way out. Free meetings, a prescriber and a weekly session are the usual three pieces of a plan that holds. Book the first appointment after discharge while you are still in the program, not afterward.

Being sent rather than choosing to go changes the paperwork more than it changes the treatment. What gets reported is attendance and completion, not what you said in a session, unless the order says otherwise. Call (844) 822-5800 and someone can look for programs that take referrals in TN.

Outpatient keeps work, school and family going. Inpatient pauses them. Outpatient care is a fraction of the cost and is the level most people are treated at. Ask whether a center can carry out an assessment first rather than selling you a program.