Hina Mauka/Teen Care

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 Kailua 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 Kaneohe, under a mile away.

Outpatient only. Nobody stays overnight, so the week is built around appointments you travel to in Kaneohe.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them under a mile away in Kaneohe.

Yes. They treat ages 12 to 17, which only a minority of centers do. Kaneohe has 8 other centers, and an age range is the first thing to confirm on the call.

Figures vary so widely between programs that an average would mislead you more than it helps. Medicaid covers addiction treatment in every state, though which centers accept it varies from county to county. Ask whether medication is inside the quote, because it is a frequent extra.

Nothing goes out without an authorization you sign, and that authorization can be narrow. A mandated program reports attendance to whoever ordered it, and that is set by the order rather than by the center. Read what you sign at intake, because the release is in that stack.

One place can take somebody today and another in the same town is a month out. A wait for residential care is not a wait for all care, and the lower levels often start sooner. If the wait is long, ask what the next level down could start on.