Services
OHL provides a variety of therapeutic services to help individuals struggling with substance use disorders and addiction. These include individual or group counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, 12-step programs, and other activities. We also offer relapse prevention and aftercare services to help individuals maintain sobriety and transition back into their daily lives.
Medically Supported Detox
Services Available in New Orleans
OHL's Medically Supported Detox program serves individuals 18+ and utilizes basic oral medications to treat symptoms of withdrawal. The facility is appropriate for people who have chronically abused many types of substances, especially opiate pain pills, prescribed anxiety and muscle relaxing medications, alcohol, and heroin.
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Detox treatment typically lasts 5 – 7 days. To ensure a safe medically supported detox, 24-hour on-site medical staff is present to assist with a comfortable detox. OHL's detox team is comprised of physicians, nurses and counselors who are trained to care for clients during detoxification.
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Short Term Adult Residential
Services Available in New Orleans, Lake Charles, & Bayou Vista
OHL’s Short-Term Residential Inpatient Program serves individuals 18+ in an approximately 28-day residential drug rehabilitation program, which intensively focuses on the most basic aspects of drug rehab treatment, such as abstinence from drug abuse, life skills building, and recovery tools.
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Through the program, individuals and their families learn to replace destructive behaviors with constructive communication and living skills. The benefits of such changes – such as improved self-esteem, constructive expression, positive relationships, and enhanced coping and living skills – ultimately lead to recovery and reintegration of the individual into their community.
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Outpatient with Housing
Transitions Program
Services Available in New Orleans
OHL offers a Transitions Program where residents live on-site at the residential facility while in treatment for 3 to 6 months.
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While in the program, clients develop life skills, build a strong support system, and prepare for employment through workforce training opportunities, including OHL’s Culinary Arts Program, which provides hands-on kitchen experience, food service training, and job readiness skills. These supports help clients work toward long-term independence and stability.
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Adult Residential Program
(Men 18+ only)
Services Available in the Westbank
OHL Westbank provides a 3-month residential treatment program for men with substance use disorders using an intensive cognitive-behavioral, 12-Step approach in a structured, supportive environment.
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Phase I focuses on understanding addiction, building recovery support, and developing a relapse prevention plan.
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Phase II focuses on applying recovery skills, maintaining or seeking employment (required), and strengthening relapse prevention while preparing for long-term recovery.
Family involvement is encouraged through education and individual sessions, with aftercare services available upon discharge.
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Outpatient & Intensive Outpatient (IOP)
Services Available in the Westbank
Outpatient Programs
OHL Westbank offers programs tailored to the individual needs of men and women and their families, ensuring everyone affected can receive support. Adults who are sober but seeking further help and education can participate in our weekly program offering 1–3 hours of support. This outpatient program addresses early recovery needs and helps maintain sobriety goals. Treatment is approximately eight weeks.
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Intensive Outpatient Support
For those needing a higher level of care, OHL Westbank offers support for individuals with substance use disorders who have stable housing and a supportive, sober home environment. This program includes a minimum of four 3-hour sessions per week (up to 12 hours total), with frequency adjusted based on need. Treatment is approximately eight weeks.
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Permanent Supportive Housing
OHL’s Permanent Supportive Housing Program focuses on moving individuals to stable, secure housing, and keeping these individuals housed and engaged in case management. OHL provides housing and supportive services to chronically homeless individuals (as referred by UNITY of Greater New Orleans). OHL also operates a Sober Living Housing for graduates of its residential inpatient programs.
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Services Available in the Westbank
Sober Living Housing
Services Available in New Orleans
Sober living is available for graduates of OHL’s Outpatient with Housing (Transitions Program). It provides a safe, structured, recovery-focused living environment where individuals can continue building independence while maintaining sobriety.
Community Health Center (CHC)
Services Available in New Orleans
Odyssey House Community Health Center is a patient centered medical home providing primary care that is patient-centered, comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, accessible, and focused on quality and safety.
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It is the mission of the Odyssey House Community Health Center to provide comprehensive primary care services to low-income, high-risk, and underserved individuals regardless of ability to pay. With a focus on integrated physical, behavioral, and dietary healthcare, including wraparound substance use disorder treatment and HIV/AIDS services, the Odyssey House Community Health Center offers compassionate care in efforts to improve quality healthcare within the communities we serve.
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340B Pharmacy
Services Available in New Orleans
The OHL 340B Pharmacy provides medications at deeply discounted for patients of our Community Health Center. Additionally, if a community client cannot wait for their medications, medications will be delivered to their residence for free.
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Low Barrier Shelter
Services Available in New Orleans
OHL's Low Barrier Shelter in New Orleans offers immediate, no-cost housing for individuals experiencing homelessness. Our shelter removes common barriers, providing a safe place to sleep and basic amenities without requiring extensive documentation or sobriety.
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Prevention
Services Available in New Orleans
OHL’s prevention and outreach department, known as iPrevent, focuses on education, intervention and access to services. Activities include educational interventions, distributing condoms and safer sex information, substance use prevention and overdose/naloxone administration trainings, testing for Hepatitis C and HIV, and making referrals to supportive services.Through interactive platforms like podcasts, social media, health centers, and community events, we aim to educate, equip, and empower our community.
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Women with Children
Claire House
Services Available in Bayou Vista
OHL-Claire House is a residential program for women and their children. There are 12 beds for women, and their dependent children (age birth to 12) can come to treatment with them. Utilizing individual, group and family counseling, as well as exercise, recreational activity, 12-step self-help groups and a structured, disciplined environment, the women and children will receive state-of -the-art care to restructure their lives and live successfully, drug free. The children’s program will facilitate cognitive, social emotional and physical learning by utilizing developmentally appropriate practices.
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Drug Court
Services Available in Bayou Vista
This program is an intensive outpatient program dedicated to treating defendants referred by the 16th Judicial District. This program consists of judicially supervised court dockets that provide a sentencing alternative of treatment combined with supervision to help individuals into long-term recovery.
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