Baton Rouge Detoxification Center (Closed)

East of the Mississippi River in central Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you can find the Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Center (BRAADC). This center offers a place of refuge for men and women over the age of 18 who are in the grips of alcohol or substance use crises.

As a registered nonprofit, this center is ultimately guided by a board of directors that manages the intake and use of donations and other revenue streams to help the center operate. All directors occupy their seats on a volunteer basis, keeping the cost of operations relatively low. As a result, they are able to provide their services to low income and underinsured patients at little to no cost.

Inpatient Non Medical Detoxification Program

The BRAADC has the capacity to care for up to 29 patients at a time. They provide a detox program for any eligible adult who has used drugs or alcohol in the past seven days. Their detox program is a social or non medical detox, meaning that they will not provide any medication during a person’s stay. Generally, the only exception would be if someone already comes into the program with medication they’ve been prescribed (for example, blood pressure medicine).

A Place to Start Again

Because the center fulfills a critical public health objective, it’s also a place where patients can interact with social workers. This can provide access to key resources and programs that patients could lean on for further public assistance.

The center is also located near the Lotus Center (another social assistance organization), as well as several charities and churches like the Nazarene Baptist Church and Sacred Heart Catholic Church. As such, the BRAADC is within walking distance of many different types of organizations someone may lean on when caught in the grips of addiction and other challenges that often come with it.