South Portland, Maine
Outpatient drug and alcohol treatment eighteen minutes from South Portland. We take direct handoffs from hospital and detox discharges so there is no empty week between levels of care, PHP, IOP, outpatient therapy, and MAT, MaineCare accepted.
Confidential · Free benefits check · Answered 24/7
18 min
From South Portland
Direct handoff
From detox or hospital
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
Accredited & Licensed
LegitScript Certified
Joint Commission Accredited
Maine DHHS Licensed
Psychology Today VerifiedWhy South Portland residents come to us
Most South Portland clients find us at a handoff, leaving a detox bed, leaving an emergency department, leaving a short inpatient stay. The clinical risk in that moment is not the discharge itself. It is the gap that follows it.
We coordinate that handoff directly with the discharging provider so the next appointment already exists before you walk out the door. Tolerance drops during detox, and an unattended week afterward is when overdoses happen.
From there you step into PHP or IOP, keep your housing and your job around the Maine Mall, Knightville, or Willard Beach, and move down through levels of care with the same clinical team instead of restarting with strangers.
Starting treatment in South Portland?
We'll check your benefits free in minutes, MaineCare and most major plans accepted.
Program offerings
South Portland clients most often come to us straight out of detox or a hospital stay, so PHP and IOP are built to catch that first fragile month rather than leave a gap.
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 South Portland
We coordinate directly with Maine Med and local detox discharge planners, and MAT can start the same week so the step down from inpatient does not turn into an unmanaged stretch at home.
South Portland's split identity
South Portland is really two places. There is the commercial spine, the Maine Mall area, the jetport, the warehouses along Broadway, where people work retail, logistics, and restaurant shifts that do not pause for anything. And there is the older South Portland: Willard Beach, Knightville, Ferry Village, the working waterfront, neighborhoods that have been here since the shipyards.
We see clients from both, and they tend to need different things. Shift workers from the mall corridor need scheduling that survives an unpredictable retail calendar and benefits help when hours change. Clients from the older neighborhoods more often arrive through a hospital or detox discharge at Maine Med, across the bridge, and need the handoff to actually happen.
What both groups share is proximity to Portland's services without being Portland. South Portland residents are used to crossing bridges for everything; treatment should not require living in one city to access another. Eighteen minutes down Route 1, the full continuum runs in Biddeford, and for South Portland clients, that drive skips the worst of Portland traffic in both directions.
Serving South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Portland, Scarborough, Knightville, and all of Cumberland County. Call 855-449-7674 for a confidential assessment.
Opioids, alcohol, and stimulants drive most South Portland referrals, frequently in combination. We treat co-occurring depression, anxiety, and trauma inside the same plan rather than sending you elsewhere for half of it.
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 South Portland
Our Biddeford center is a straight run from South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and the Maine Mall area. Group times avoid the worst of the commute in both directions, and virtual sessions fill in when the drive is not possible.
From Knightville
~18 minutes via Route 1
From the Maine Mall area
~16 minutes via I-295 & I-95
From Cape Elizabeth
~25 minutes via Route 77 & 1
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 Cape Elizabeth, Portland, Scarborough, Knightville and the rest of Southern Maine.
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Answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Free and confidential.
Free, confidential insurance check, most major plans and MaineCare accepted.
