Emulate Treatment Center

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Woodland Hills, about a mile away.

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Woodland Hills.

They offer a program for veterans, which not every center around Woodland Hills does.

The nearest other center is under a mile away, in Woodland Hills, and there are 8 inside 14 miles.

Four questions separate most programs: who prescribes, what the step down is, what it costs, and who it is built for. What a program arranges for the weeks after discharge says more about it than anything in its own description. Ask both places for the daily schedule and compare those rather than the brochures.

Detox is days, residential care is weeks, and outpatient care is months. The first two weeks are usually the most intensive part of whatever you choose. Find out whether the program can be extended before you are in it.

Think documents and medication first, comforts second. Anything a prescriber gave you should travel with its label attached, because an unlabeled container is usually refused. Write the medication list before you pack anything, with the doses and who prescribed them.