Ocean Medical Services Inc

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 Bayville 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 Bayville, 1.8 miles away.

Yes, they offer a veterans program, one of 12 named programs at this address.

They work in Spanish as well as English. Ask whether the group sessions in Toms River are in Spanish too, or only the one to one ones.

Older adults, plus young adults from 18 to 25 and adults from 26 to 64. Ask how the groups are arranged in Toms River, because a wide age range often still means one room.

They provide outpatient care and not a residential stay, so there is no bed to wait for. The nearest place with one is in Toms River, 4.3 miles away.

It is a screening conversation, and the answers decide what gets suggested. Understating the amount is the common mistake, and it leads to the wrong level of care being offered. Ask what the assessment after this call involves and whether it happens in person.

Publicly funded residential programs tend to have the longest lists and the lowest cost. The longest lists sit at the programs that cost the least, which is the genuinely hard part of this. Ask who to call if things get worse while you are waiting, and write that number down.