After mustering the will to seek life-changing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, many Butte County residents have had that decision derailed by a catch-22. Residential programs admit participants only after 24 hours of sobriety but, in their struggle with substances, addicted people often can’t get sober at all—not even for a day—without a program.
What they need, and what’s been missing in the North State, is a detoxification center: a facility where alcoholics and other addicts can live clean for several days until they’re set to enter recovery.
Until recently, locals had to drive about an hour for a supervised detox; apart from one bed in Yuba City, the facilities north of Sacramento haven’t provided medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to ease withdrawal.
That changed April 19, when Skyway House Recovery unveiled the service in Chico.
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