CleanSlate Centers

They provide outpatient and telemedicine. The nearest alternative is in Crown Point, 2.5 miles away, if you want something to compare it against.

No detox here. A center can still take someone after a detox elsewhere, which is the common order of events, and the nearest one is under a mile away in Merrillville.

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which not every place around Merrillville does.

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

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Merrillville.

Anything from a week to a year, depending on what is being treated and how. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Ask whether detox time counts inside the program length or is added to it.

A previous attempt is information rather than a mark against you. The useful question after a recurrence is what was missing, and the answer is often medication or aftercare. Ask what is arranged for the weeks after discharge specifically.

Identification, insurance card, medications in their original labeled containers, and a week of ordinary clothes. Anything a prescriber gave you should travel with its label attached, because an unlabeled container is usually refused. Sort the keys, the mail and the animals before the day rather than on it.