Ashley Inc

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential, detox 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 detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and 2 of the 8 centers near Havre de Grace offer one at all.

They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which is the part of treatment that is prescribed rather than attended. Of the 8 centers near Havre de Grace, not all of them do.

They treat adults up to and past 65. Ask whether the group sessions are mixed age, because in Havre de Grace that often means one room rather than two.

They offer telemedicine, so some of this can be done by video rather than traveling into Havre de Grace.

Residential care is a bed and a program. Outpatient care is a schedule of appointments. Intensive outpatient care at several hours a day is closer to a residential program than to a weekly appointment. Ask what the step down from residential care looks like at that center.

Often, though residential care is reviewed far more closely than outpatient care. A center's billing office can often check a plan faster than the insurer's own line will. Ask what your out of pocket maximum means for a stay of this length.

One program can take somebody today while 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. Ask whether the wait changes if you are willing to start at a different level of care.