Addiction Recovery Resources for Individuals
How do I know if I need help?
Some questions you can ask yourself regarding the behavioral and emotional signs of substance abuse include:
- Do you try to cut back or stop using, but are unable to do so?
- Do you use more of a substance than you intend to?
- Do you spend a great deal of time looking for the substance, using it, and recovering from using it?
- Do you use a substance in risky situations, such as driving?
- Do you continue taking the substance, despite knowing the substance causes a physical or emotional condition to get worse?
- Are you unable to manage your responsibilities including home, school, or work?
- Do you give up important activities in order to use?
- Do you continue to use a substance, even knowing that it causes problems in relationships?
- Do you take more of a substance to get high because of cravings?
Having at least two of these signs in the past 12 months could indicate that you have a substance use disorder.
Learn more about Our Programs to assist with substance use disorder.
What treatments are available?
Road to Recovery is an outpatient opioid detoxification center, with locations across Ontario.
When the physical strongholds of addiction result in serious withdrawal symptoms that are too painful for an individual to cope with on their own, outpatient drug detox can provide a unique level of support and care that is suitable for most patients choosing this path. Outpatient drug detox can help individuals safely detox from opioids and prepare for acceptance into long term recovery.
During this process of outpatient detox, various medications can be prescribed to help relieve the physical and psychological effects of withdrawal. Based on your unique Road To Recovery, doctors can prescribe either methadone, Kadian®, Suboxone® or Sublocade® to help the patient reduce or stop the use of opioids.
Learn more about your treatment options.
Opioid Addiction Treatment
Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is based on a patient-centered approach to care. The patient’s past medical history, medications, allergies and general history are crucial to the choice of OAT. Four potential pharmaceutical approaches exist for OAT: methadone, slow-release oral morphine (SROM/Kadian®), Suboxone® and Sublocade®. The most effective treatment is the one that relieves opioid cravings and withdrawal in the absence of significant side-effects or complications.
Starting treatment
Set up an intake appointment by contacting us by telephone or on-line as shown below. You can also drop by a RTR clinic and present your OHIP card. An initial appointment will be scheduled as soon as possible.
- Patients must be 18 years of age or older
- Valid photo identification must be presented including a valid OHIP number
- Evidence of opioid use disorder must be present as per DSM-V criteria
- A urine sample will be obtained periodically to assess for recent drug use.
- Agreement to follow program policies & procedures
- Full consent to be agreed upon and signed by the patient prior to starting medication assisted treatment
Contact us to become a patient
About Methadone
Methadone is usually prescribed by doctors to help you with opioid addiction to drugs like codeine, heroin, and fentanyl. Long-term clinical studies have shown not only the benefits of this treatment but also the affordability of the program. Our methadone program also provides support with counselling, social work, and family therapy.
More about Methadone
About Suboxone
Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment (BMT) is used as a long-term treatment plan for opioid addiction. If you are addicted to drugs like Heroin, Morphine, Oxycodone or Fentanyl, BMT could be the right treatment for you. Suboxone® contains buprenorphine and naloxone. Suboxone® is often prescribed by doctors because it is safer, has fewer side effects, and takes less time to reach the correct dosage. It allows you to lead a normal, productive life while on the road to recovery.
More about Suboxone®
About Addiction
Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease of the brain. This means simply that when using drugs or alcohol, those with the disease are unable to stop, even if they want to. Instead, the urge to continue taking their drug of choice overwhelms them, even if the drug is causing them harm.
Addiction is characterized by not only the inability to abstain from use for any significant length of time, but also an inability to control the amount taken when using. Additional symptoms can include the loss of behavioral control, cravings, physical withdrawal, inability to recognize the problems caused by use and inability to effectively manage almost all aspects of life.
How to become a patient?
Set up an intake appointment by contacting us by telephone or on-line as shown below. You can also drop by a RTR clinic and present your OHIP card. An initial appointment will be scheduled as soon as possible.
To become a patient you must:
- Be 18 years of age or older
- Have valid photo identification,including a valid OHIP number
- Opioid use disorder evidence must be present as per DSM-V criteria
- Agree to follow program policies & procedures
- Give full consent prior to starting medication assisted treatment (to be agreed upon and signed by the patient)
