Portage Path Behavioral Health

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

They provide detox for 5 substances: alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Akron has 8 other centers.

Akron has 18 NA meetings too, and most people end up using both.

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

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

They work in 2 languages beyond English: Sign language and Farsi. Ask whether the group sessions in Akron are in it too, or only the one to one ones.

Nobody can give you a real number from a listing page alone, including us. Every state operates a publicly funded system with its own intake line, separate from anything a private center offers. It is worth asking about a sliding scale even where nothing is advertised.

The questions are much the same wherever you call, because every intake line is screening for the same few things. The person answering is usually trained to screen rather than to treat, so the clinical detail comes at the assessment. It is fine to say you are only gathering information.