Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin - Affinity House

They provide inpatient residential, which is the whole of what this address in Eau Claire is set up for.

They do not detox, and nothing inside 14 miles of Eau Claire does either. Ask them where they send people, because a place without one usually has somewhere it refers to.

The nearest other center is 2.5 miles away, in Eau Claire, and there are 8 inside 14 miles.

They prescribe buprenorphine, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Eau Claire.

Eau Claire has 28 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

Somebody works through a short list, and the clinical detail comes later at an assessment. Nobody needs a diagnosis to make this call, and most people making it do not have one. Ask what they would recommend if money were not a factor, and then what they recommend given that it is.

Often, though residential care is reviewed far more closely than outpatient care. Whether a plan calls something medically necessary is the hinge, and that is a clinical judgment made on paperwork. Ask which level of care the plan has already approved, and for how many days.

It depends on the level of care and on the week, which is why only a phone call can answer it. The longest lists tend to sit at the programs that cost the least, which is the genuinely hard part of this. Ask what the fastest route into treatment is this week, and take that answer seriously.