UofL Health - Peace Hospital

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

They provide detox for 3 substances: opioids, alcohol and benzodiazepines. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Louisville has 8 other centers.

They offer a program for clients with a mental health diagnosis as well, which not every center around Louisville does.

They treat mental health alongside the substance use, so both sides are handled in one place. Ask whether the psychiatric side is on site, because in Louisville that is the part that varies.

Louisville has 337 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

It starts with a short assessment: the substance, the pattern, your health, and where you live. Honest answers get a better recommendation, and understating the amount is the most common way people get sent to the wrong level of care. Ask what the assessment after this call involves and whether it happens in person.

Days for a detox, weeks for a residential stay, months for outpatient care. The 28 day figure comes from what insurers once reimbursed rather than from anything about how recovery works. Ask what the longest and the shortest version of this program looks like.

Most of the time, partly, and the share depends on the plan rather than on the center you pick. Whether a plan calls something medically necessary is the hinge, and that is a clinical judgment made on paperwork. Ask for the benefits check in writing, including what it does not reach.