First Step Comm Counseling Servs LLC

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 Pasco is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

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

Yes, they offer a veterans program, one of 15 named programs at this address.

They do not prescribe medication. For opioid use that is worth knowing before you choose, because medication changes what the first weeks look like, and Kennewick has 8 other centers.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Kennewick about a teenager is in the right place.

Yes, they treat people in Spanish. Whether that means a counselor who speaks it or an interpreter is worth asking, and Kennewick has 8 other centers to ask the same of.

Ask both places the same questions and the differences come out quickly. Referral services and treatment providers both answer the phone, and knowing which you reached changes the call. Write down four questions and ask every place the same four.

A return to use is treated as information: something in the plan was not holding. What was learned the first time usually shapes a better plan the second. Ask about naloxone if opioids are involved, because tolerance will have dropped.