To keep this private,
you don't have to drive to Memphis.
Quiet, continuous Suboxone and psychiatric care for the Ole Miss community — students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and the rest of North Mississippi. Records that stay with us.
On-campus services run on referral and triage. Their job is to stabilize and route. They are not, and were not built to be, a long-term private psychiatric home — and they sit inside a university health system that touches insurance, advisors, and (for some students) family notification.
For a lot of students who land here, the medicine they need — buprenorphine, psychiatric medication management for ADHD or anxiety, treatment for what started as Adderall and turned into something else — is the kind of care that needs continuity, dose adjustments across a semester, and the privacy of a small office that does not share a database with the University of Mississippi.
Same is true for graduate students, faculty kids, visiting professors, and staff. We see all of them. The records stay here.
One — who shows up here
The Ole Miss community we already see.
Undergraduates — most often someone whose pill habit started in a study group during finals and never let go. Hydrocodone from a wisdom-tooth surgery. A friend's Adderall that turned into something stronger. The fentanyl in everything now is a different kind of dangerous than what existed five years ago, and we see the result of it weekly.
Graduate students — pharmacy, law, nursing, business, MFA. They are sharper than most about the cost of a record showing up in the wrong place during licensing or board exams. They want privacy, and they're right to want it.
Faculty and staff — including faculty and staff kids home from a school in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, or Florida who need continuity while they're back in Oxford. We coordinate with their out-of-state provider when it helps.
Athletes and Greek life members — quietly, with the privacy you'd expect. We do not communicate with athletic departments, chapter officers, or coaches. Medical questions about NCAA-required documentation should be handled with team physicians; we are happy to coordinate where appropriate and the patient authorizes it.
North Mississippi residents who happen to live near Ole Miss — Oxford locals, Lafayette County, and patients driving in from across the region. We are the regional Suboxone hub for North Mississippi, not just the university crowd.
Two — the privacy specifics
What 42 CFR Part 2 actually means for an Ole Miss student.
This isn't marketing language. It's a federal rule that applies specifically to substance use treatment records — and it is stricter than HIPAA. Here's what it means in practical terms.
We are not part of the University Health System.
Life Balance, PLLC is a private outpatient practice. Your record is not visible in any Ole Miss system, EMR, or database. Not Student Health. Not the Counseling Center. Not Athletics. Not the Dean's office. Not housing. Not academic advising.
No release without your written consent.
Substance use records under 42 CFR Part 2 cannot be released to a third party without your specific, written, time-limited authorization — and that includes parents, even under FERPA, for any patient eighteen or older. Most subpoenas do not pierce it without a court order specifically referencing 42 CFR Part 2.
Insurance is the one thing to think through.
If you use insurance, the insurance company sees that a claim was paid. If you're on a parent's plan, an Explanation of Benefits gets mailed home — usually showing date, code, and amount, sometimes the provider name. Many of our students choose self-pay specifically to avoid this. We will help you think through the tradeoff on your first call.
Nothing on a transcript. Nothing in a graduation file.
Outside medical care has no path to academic records. Treatment here will not appear on a transcript, in a graduate school application, in an athletic eligibility file, or in a bar / nursing / pharmacy / counseling licensure background unless you yourself disclose it.
Three — where we sit
A mile and a half from the Square. The hub for North Mississippi.
We're at 405 Galleria Drive, Suite E — in the Galleria off Jackson Avenue West. From the Lyceum it's about six minutes by car, twenty by bike. From the Grove it's the same. From any sorority or fraternity house on the row it's under ten minutes.
Outside the Ole Miss community, we are the Suboxone and MAT clinic for the broader North Mississippi region — Lafayette, Panola, Tate, Marshall, Yalobusha, Calhoun, Pontotoc, Union, Lee, Tippah, DeSoto, Tunica, Coahoma, and Quitman counties. Patients drive in from Batesville, Senatobia, Holly Springs, New Albany, Water Valley, Bruce, Pontotoc, Tupelo, Olive Branch, Southaven, Hernando, Sardis, Como, Clarksdale.
For students from the Delta, the river towns, or the Pine Belt who would rather not drive, we also see telehealth Suboxone patients across all of Mississippi.
Four — paying for it
How students and faculty actually pay for this.
Mississippi has a few common patterns for the Ole Miss community. Here's the honest version of each.
A parent's BCBS Mississippi or out-of-state BCBS plan, covering you up to age twenty-six. Most are in network. The catch is the EOB — the Explanation of Benefits gets mailed to whoever holds the policy. If that matters, ask Kim about self-pay before your first appointment.
Mississippi Medicaid or Magnolia Health for students who qualify. Both cover Suboxone visits and generic buprenorphine/naloxone.
Student health insurance plans, which vary widely — many are administered by Aetna or BCBS and do cover behavioral health and substance use treatment. We'll verify on the call.
Self-pay, by far the most private route. Kim quotes the visit fee on your first call. Generic buprenorphine/naloxone at most Oxford pharmacies — Walmart on Jackson Ave, CVS on University, Walgreens on West Jackson, the independents — runs roughly thirty to eighty dollars a month depending on dose. GoodRx and SingleCare can drop that further.
Some patients use insurance for the medication and self-pay for the visit. We can structure it that way.
Five — fitting it into the week
Between classes. Between practices. Over breaks.
Office hours are Monday through Thursday eight to five, Friday eight to noon. Most established Suboxone follow-ups take fifteen to twenty minutes. We schedule realistically.
During the semester — early morning before an eight-AM, between back-to-back blocks, late afternoon after practice. We work around your schedule, not the other way around.
Over fall break, Thanksgiving, winter break, and spring break, if you're going home in Mississippi, telehealth keeps your continuity from wherever you are in state. If you're going out of state, we plan ahead — prescription length and a refill plan that doesn't leave you empty in another time zone.
Over summer, if you're back home in Mississippi for the summer, we keep seeing you. If you're at an internship out of state, we coordinate a transfer or a bridge — which we have done many times.
For the deeper walk through Suboxone itself — what it does, the induction protocol, and side effects — start here.
The full Suboxone treatment guideQuestions from the Ole Miss community
What students, parents, and faculty actually ask first.
- Not from us. Substance use treatment records are protected by 42 CFR Part 2 — stricter than HIPAA. We do not release records to parents without your written consent. The one thing to plan for is the insurance EOB if you're on a parent plan. Many students self-pay to avoid this — Kim walks through it on the first call.
- No. Life Balance is a private practice unaffiliated with the University of Mississippi. Our records do not touch any Ole Miss system — not Student Health, not the Counseling Center, not Athletics, not advising. No pathway to a transcript or university file.
- Outside medical treatment does not appear on transcripts or in graduate school files. The only disclosure path is you choosing to disclose — which most licensure applications only require for active legal or disciplinary issues.
- Buprenorphine is not a banned substance under standard NCAA protocols when prescribed for opioid use disorder. NCAA medical exception documentation runs through team physicians, not outside providers. Our role is private continuity. Coordination with team docs is patient-led with consent.
- Yes. Visiting students, exchange students, and visiting faculty are common patients. We bridge from your home provider for the duration you're in Oxford and coordinate the transition back.
- No. Avoiding treatment carries more licensure risk than receiving it — relapse and crisis events are what create disclosable problems. MAT is the standard of care per WHO, SAMHSA, ASAM, and the CDC. Most boards distinguish active problems from treated, stable conditions.
- Yes. Casey treats substance use disorders, alcohol use disorder, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring conditions. Suboxone is one part of the practice. Many patients arrive with a primary opioid issue and a secondary, untreated condition.
- 405 Galleria Drive, Suite E, Oxford, MS 38655 — Galleria shopping center off Jackson Avenue West. About six minutes from the Lyceum. Easy parking, ground-floor entry. Call (662) 640-4004.
Same medicine the rest of the country has.
The privacy you'd want.
Start with a new client intake. Most new patients — students, faculty, staff, and patients from across North Mississippi — are seen within the same week.
Or call (662) 640-4004 · Mon – Thu 8 to 5, Fri 8 to noon