Community Health and Outreach Center

They provide outpatient, 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 Kendallville 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 Auburn, a few streets away.

They treat both. Depression and anxiety alongside a substance are common rather than unusual, and one place handling the two together beats two handling one each. Auburn has 5 other centers if this one cannot.

The nearest other center is a few streets away, in Auburn, and there are 5 inside 14 miles.

They take court referrals, which usually means they are used to the reporting side of it. Courts in Auburn send people to places set up for it rather than to any opening.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 5 centers near Auburn, not all of them do.

They normally continue, and a prescriber at the program reviews the whole list on arrival. Pill organizers are often refused at the door, because medication has to arrive labeled. Ask whether there is a prescriber on site and how soon you would see them.

The practical question is not severity but what you go home to each night. People commonly start higher and step down, rather than choosing one level and staying there. Say plainly who else is in the house and what they are using, because it changes the answer.