Harbor Springs Counseling Services

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 Marietta 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, 3.8 miles away.

They treat adults from 26 to 64 and young adults from 18 to 25. The nearest alternative is in Marietta, 3.8 miles away, if the age is the thing that rules this one out.

They offer a program for people who are pregnant or just postpartum, which not every center around Austell does.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them 3.8 miles away in Marietta.

Most plans cover addiction treatment to some degree, because federal parity rules put it alongside other medical care. A plan can approve the detox and then decline the residential stay that was meant to follow it. Get any authorization in writing, with the number of days it covers.

The rule covers the first phone call too, before you are a patient and whether or not you ever become one. A release of information is how that changes, it is signed by you, and it can name one person and one purpose. Ask how a claim through your insurance would appear, if that is the part that worries you.

There is often something available sooner at a different level of care than the one you called about. A list quoted in weeks can shorten without warning, so being reachable matters. Ask who to call if things get worse while you are waiting, and write that number down.