Salvation Army Addiction Trt Servs - Continuum of Care Program

They offer inpatient residential, outpatient, telemedicine and detox. The practical difference is whether you sleep at home or at the center, and are 8 other centers inside 14 miles if neither suits.

They detox from opioids, alcohol, cocaine and methamphetamines. Which substances a place handles matters more than the word detox, and none of the 8 centers near Honolulu offer one at all.

Honolulu has 81 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

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

They treat people in Sign language as well as English, which not every place around Honolulu does.

Somebody works through a short list: the substance, the amount, the history, the insurance. Honest answers get a better recommendation, and understating the amount is the most common way people get sent to the wrong level of care. Describe what is happening rather than the manageable version of it.

Expect days for withdrawal management, weeks for a residential program, and months for anything outpatient. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient sit between residential and standard outpatient care, at a few hours a day. Find out whether the program can be extended before you are in it.

A return to use is treated as information: something in the plan was not holding. Programs will usually ask what happened last time, and the answer shapes what they offer. Tell the program what the last attempt included, so this one can be different.