WhiteSands Treatment Center

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

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Plant City.

They take court referrals, which usually means they are used to the reporting side of it. Courts in Plant City send people to places set up for it rather than to any opening.

They prescribe 2 medications: buprenorphine and naltrexone. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Plant City.

They treat adults up to and past 65. Ask whether the group sessions are mixed age, because in Plant City that often means one room rather than two.

It is the stretch after discharge, and it tends to decide whether the program holds. Sober living houses are one option, they are not treatment, and the quality varies enormously between them. Ask whether the center keeps treating you afterwards or hands you on.

Programs expect family contact rather than tolerating it, though the amount is set by the person in treatment. A relative can usually start the enquiry, book the assessment and hear the options before any decision is made. Ask whether family sessions carry on after the main program ends.

Inpatient takes you out of your life for a while. Outpatient treats you inside it. A stable home and someone in it who is on your side makes outpatient care far more workable. Ask for an assessment rather than a recommendation, then ask what the assessment found.