Ohio State East Hospital

They treat people at inpatient hospital, outpatient, inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

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 take court referrals, which usually means they are used to the reporting side of it. Courts in Columbus send people to places set up for it rather than to any opening.

Some of what they do can happen remotely. Ask which parts, because it is rarely all of them and the 8 centers near Columbus differ on it.

Columbus has 48 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

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

The useful questions are the ones answerable with a fact: who prescribes, what the schedule is, what follows it. Any place promising a specific outcome is telling you something about itself rather than about treatment. Ask what happens if somebody wants to leave partway through, because the answer says a lot about how a place is run.

Most of the time, partly, and the share depends on the plan rather than on the center you pick. A plan can approve the detox and then decline the residential stay that was meant to follow it. Ask what the rate becomes if the plan stops approving days before the program ends.