Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc

They are set up for 2 levels: outpatient and inpatient residential. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Chicago, 3 offer a bed.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Chicago, about a mile away.

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

There are 8 more within a short drive of Chicago, so this does not have to be the only call you make.

Chicago has 477 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

It is a screening conversation, and the answers decide what gets suggested. A call outside office hours often reaches an answering service rather than an intake worker, which is worth knowing before judging a program by it. Ask what they would recommend if money were not a factor, and then what they recommend given that it is.

One puts a building between you and the drug. The other asks you to manage that yourself while being treated. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient fill the gap, with several hours of treatment a day and your own bed at night. Be honest about what is around you at home. It changes the recommendation.

A wait quoted on the phone is an estimate of a queue that moves, rather than a date you can plan around. Many programs start the paperwork while you wait, so the day a bed opens is not lost to admissions. Ask what is available this week, not just what the program is.