White Light Behavioral Health

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential and detox. 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 detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Columbus.

They treat both, and the rest of what they are set up for is adult men, adult women, court referrals, hiv/aids, military families, pain management, past domestic violence, past sexual abuse, past trauma, service members and veterans.

Veterans are one of the 12 groups they offer a dedicated program for.

Columbus has 434 free AA meetings as well, which is not treatment but costs nothing and needs no referral.

Four questions separate most programs: who prescribes, what the step down is, what it costs, and who it is built for. Who delivers the therapy matters: licensed clinicians and counselors in training are not the same thing. Ask what license is held by the person who would actually be treating you.

Most programs will say plainly whether they sit on a court's approved list. An approved list is kept by the court or the supervising officer, and programs move on and off it. Ask who signs the completion paperwork and how long it takes.

One of them takes the decision to use out of your hands for a while. The other leaves it with you. Medical risk pushes toward inpatient care: withdrawal that needs supervision is not an outpatient problem. Say plainly who else is in the house and what they are using, because it changes the answer.