WestCare California Inc - Richmond Health and Wellness Center

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

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 5 of the 8 centers near Richmond offer one at all.

They offer a program for people dealing with past trauma, which not every center around Richmond does.

Within 14 miles there are 8 other centers, across Berkeley, San Rafael and Oakland.

Richmond has 4 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

Most programs will say plainly whether they sit on a court's approved list. Drug court programs often have their own approved list and their own funding attached. Keep your own dated attendance record alongside whatever the program keeps.

Having both is the ordinary case, and the programs built for it are described as integrated. Which came first is usually impossible to untangle and rarely changes what should happen next. Ask who to speak to if the mental health side gets worse mid program.

A wait quoted on the phone is an estimate of a queue that moves, rather than a date you can plan around. Private programs typically have shorter waits and higher prices, and both facts are part of the same picture. Keep the phone on. Beds are offered at short notice and go quickly.