Biddeford, Maine
Portland Treatment is headquartered in Biddeford. For people who live here, treatment is a drive down Main Street, not a trip to another state, PHP, IOP, outpatient therapy, and medication-assisted treatment, with MaineCare and most major plans accepted.
Confidential · Free benefits check · Answered 24/7
In town
Our Biddeford center
PHP · IOP · OP
Full outpatient continuum
MaineCare
Accepted, plus major plans
No waitlist
Openings available now
Medically reviewed
Benjamin Crocker, MD
Psychiatrist · Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine · MD, The Ohio State University · Residency & fellowship training at the University of Michigan and LAC+USC Medical Center
Last reviewed August 2026. Read our editorial standards & clinical review process
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Maine DHHS Licensed
Psychology Today VerifiedWhy Biddeford residents come to us
Biddeford has changed fast, new restaurants in the mill district, rising rents, and the same alcohol and opioid problems that have been here for decades. What has not changed is how hard it is to get into a program when you finally decide you are ready.
Because we are based here, Biddeford clients get the shortest path we can offer: a confidential phone assessment, a free benefits check, and in most cases a start date within days. No out-of-state placement, no month on a list.
Our programs are outpatient by design. You keep your job at the hospital, the mill district, or a shift up Route 1, you sleep at home, and you build recovery into the life you are actually going to live afterward.
Starting treatment in Biddeford?
We'll check your benefits free in minutes, MaineCare and most major plans accepted.
Program offerings
Every level of care runs out of our Biddeford center, so moving from PHP down to IOP or outpatient never means a new building, a new commute, or a new clinician for you to catch up.
Full days of clinical programming, group therapy, individual sessions, psychiatric and medical oversight, with evenings at home. Best for stepping down from detox or a hospital stay, or when use has escalated past what weekly therapy can hold.
Several sessions each week of group and individual therapy built around a work or school schedule. This is where most clients spend the bulk of treatment, long enough for real clinical work, flexible enough to keep a job.
Ongoing weekly therapy for people who have stabilized and want to protect their progress, relapse prevention, continued skill work, and a standing connection to a clinician who knows your history.
Buprenorphine (Suboxone) and naltrexone (Vivitrol) for opioid and alcohol use disorder, prescribed by trusted local MAT providers we work hand in hand with, and always paired with therapy here, never medication alone.
Telehealth groups and individual therapy for the weeks when the commute, childcare, or a car problem would otherwise cost you a session. Most clients blend in-person and virtual across an episode of care.
Education and structured sessions for partners, parents, and adult children. Addiction reorganizes a household; treatment that ignores the household tends not to hold once programming ends.
How this works in Biddeford
Biddeford clients get first pick of group times built around Southern Maine Health Care shift changes and mill-district work hours, and your MAT provider's dosing visits can be planned around your group schedule instead of forcing you to burn a day of work.
Recovery in a city that knows reinvention
A generation ago, Biddeford was written off, mills closed, storefronts empty, and the opioid crisis hit York County's mill towns harder than almost anywhere in Maine. Today the same mill buildings hold restaurants and startups, the downtown is full again, and the city is the fastest-growing young community in the state. The people who live here watched a place get counted out and come back. That matters more in recovery than most clinical language admits.
It also means the old problem is still here underneath the new paint. Alcohol and fentanyl do not care about a restaurant row, and Biddeford's overdose numbers have tracked with the hardest-hit parts of York County for years. We built our center here deliberately, not in a suburb, not in a medical park on the edge of a highway, but in the community where the need is.
For Biddeford residents, that means treatment from people who understand the specific texture of this city: the hospital shift workers, the tradespeople rebuilding the mill district, the UNE students, the fishermen out of Biddeford Pool, and the families who have been here for four generations. Recovery plans land differently when your clinician already knows what a February on the Saco River feels like.
Serving Biddeford, Saco, Arundel, Dayton, Kennebunkport, and all of York County. Call 855-449-7674 for a confidential assessment.
York County's supply has shifted hard toward fentanyl and fentanyl-adulterated stimulants, and alcohol remains the most common reason Biddeford residents call us. Treatment planning here reflects what people are actually using.
Co-occurring conditions. Depression, anxiety, trauma, and grief show up alongside addiction constantly. We treat them as part of the same plan rather than sending you somewhere else for half of it.
Our Spaces
Where you recover matters. Every room at Portland Treatment was designed to feel calm, open, and human, so you can focus on the work of getting well.
The first room you walk into sets the tone. Warm light, real people, and a team that knows your name before you sit down.
A friendly face, a calm lobby, and a team ready to help you take the first step without judgment.
Our yoga therapy space is prepared with mats, bolsters, blocks, and room to practice mindful movement at your own pace.
Open, bright waiting areas designed to feel like a place you'd actually want to spend time, not a clinic hallway.
Private offices where honest conversations happen between clients and clinicians, safe, confidential, and focused on you.
Comfortable group lounges where honest conversation happens and community starts to take hold.
Our community room hosts everything from movie nights to ping-pong tournaments, because healing needs joy, too.
Getting here from Biddeford
Our center sits in Biddeford, minutes from downtown, the mill district, and Southern Maine Health Care. Group times are set around local shift changes, and our team sorts out transportation before your first day rather than after you have missed a session.
From downtown Biddeford
~5 minutes
From Biddeford Pool
~15 minutes via Route 208
From Arundel
~12 minutes via Route 111
Insurance
Portland Treatment is in-network with Anthem, UMR/UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Harvard Pilgrim, Martin's Point, TRICARE and MaineCare, Cigna is our only out-of-network plan. In-network means contracted rates, lower coinsurance and no balance bill. We verify your benefits free, in minutes, with no obligation.
Free, confidential, no obligation
Or read the coverage guide for your plan, Anthem rehab coverage, Cigna rehab coverage, MaineCare rehab coverage and other accepted insurance plans.
Also serving Saco, Arundel, Dayton, Kennebunkport and the rest of Southern Maine.
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