It also joins other addiction treatment facilities in Spokane such as the Spokane Regional Health District’s new opioid treatment facility, which opened earlier this month at 311 West 8th Ave.įounded in 2012, Ideal Option provides addiction treatment services at 90 clinics in nine states and has treated more than 75,000 patients. Positions at the new facility include three addiction medicine providers, four medical assistants, a care navigator and a peer outreach specialist. “If we come together as one to direct people into treatment that works, we can help Spokane get in front of the overdose epidemic.” Our community is desperate for a treatment center like this one that makes it easy for anyone to start recovery and keep it going,” he said. “There are too many people dying in Spokane and too many families suffering because of street drugs. The organization will continue to run its two clinics on Francis Street in north Spokane and in Spokane Valley.Īccording to community outreach coordinator Tyler Vermillion, the combined capacity of the two closed clinics will only make up a third of what the new facility can handle, with capacity for up to 100 patients a day. Ideal Option has closed its clinics on Monroe and Washington streets and consolidated its employees and resources into the the new facility at 26 E 5th Avenue. Ideal Option has opened a new addiction treatment facility in Spokane, expanding its services as more and more Spokane residents experience addiction to alcohol or opioids like fentanyl.
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