Cobb County Community Services Board - Hartmann Center

They provide inpatient residential and telemedicine. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Atlanta is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

They do not detox. Withdrawal from alcohol or benzodiazepines in particular is a medical event, and the closest place set up for it is in Marietta, 2.5 miles away.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Marietta about a teenager is in the right place.

They work in Spanish as well as English. Ask whether the group sessions in Marietta are in Spanish too, or only the one to one ones.

They treat both. A diagnosis left untreated while the substance use is treated is the usual reason a first attempt does not hold, and Atlanta is the nearest place to try instead if this one does not fit.

A well designed program treats its own ending as a handover rather than a finish. Where medication is part of the plan, the handover to a community prescriber is the gap to watch. Ask to see what a discharge plan looks like before you choose the program.

Nothing goes out without an authorization you sign, and that authorization can be narrow. That rule exists because people avoided treatment when they could not rely on it, which is worth knowing when you weigh it. Ask for a copy of any release you sign, and read what it covers.

It is common, programs are built expecting it, and it is not a reason to wait. A different level of care is often the right response rather than a repeat of the same program. Ask about naloxone if opioids are involved, because tolerance will have dropped.