Porter Starke Services Inc

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

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Valparaiso, a few streets away.

Valparaiso has 29 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

They treat both. A diagnosis left untreated while the substance use is treated is the usual reason a first attempt does not hold, and Chesterton is the nearest place to try instead if this one does not fit.

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

The useful comparisons are concrete: the level of care, whether there is a prescriber, what the aftercare is, and the cost. What a program arranges for the weeks after discharge says more about it than anything in its own description. Ask who you would actually be treated by, and what their license is.

Ask three centers and you will get three different figures, because they are pricing three different programs. Public and nonprofit programs often charge on a sliding scale, and some places are free to people who qualify on income. Get the figure in writing if you can, and ask what happens if you need longer than the program length.

Outpatient keeps work, school and family going. Inpatient pauses them. The middle levels, several hours a day with your own bed at night, are the ones most people have never heard of. Ask which level they would put a family member in, and why that one.