River Valley Behavioral Health - Regional Chemical Dependency Program

They offer inpatient residential, outpatient and telemedicine. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 8 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

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

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which not every place around Owensboro does.

They offer a program for adult men, which not every center around Owensboro does.

Their programs are for adults from 26 to 64 and young adults from 18 to 25. The group you sit in is usually built around the age band, which in Owensboro can mean one group rather than several.

What you pay depends more on insurance than on which center you choose. Many centers will spread a balance over months, and those terms are negotiable more often than people assume. Ask whether detox is included in the figure, because very often it is billed on its own.

Residential care is a bed and a program. Outpatient care is a schedule of appointments. Withdrawal from alcohol or from benzodiazepines can be medically dangerous, which pushes the choice toward supervised care. Ask for an assessment before anybody recommends a level of care to you.

Identification, insurance card, medications in their original labeled containers, and a week of ordinary clothes. Medications normally have to arrive in the original labeled container, so a pill organizer can be refused at the door. Ask what the first twenty four hours look like, because that is what you are packing for.