July 13, 2021
StarVista recently launched its new 24-hour First Chance Residential Detox Center, which is San Mateo County’s first women-focused drug detox center. In an article from the San Mateo Daily Journal, Program Director Linda Malone and Clinical Director Clarise Blanchard discuss the new center and what it means for those struggling in the county.
“The first women focused drug detox center is coming to San Mateo County in a partnered effort by medical nonprofit StarVista and the county to provide gender specific care to an often overlooked population. ‘This will be the jumping off point for this and I’m hoping that this will open the door to other detox for women in the area,’ Linda Malone, program director of StarVista’s First Chance program, said…”