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NWIH provides methadone at the following clinics:

  • 3727 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, WA 98409 / Phone: 253-300-7474
  • 9720 South Tacoma Way, Lakewood, WA 98499 / Phone: 253-503-3666

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Click on the forms and print them directly from your internet browser window. Fill the forms completely with all your information and bring them to the clinic.

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While you’re away from your treatment clinic, You can receive your dose at one of our MAT clinics by filling out the above form.

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

Trying to withdraw from a substance abruptly, without tapering or using safer replacement substances, may lead to relapse. The pain and stress of abrupt withdrawal may be overwhelming. NWIH offers Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) as a solution. Our Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) clinicians prescribe and administer medications to patients enrolled in the MAT program while closely monitoring their improvements.  

NWIH provides methadone, naltrexone, buprenorphine, naloxone, and suboxone for treating SUD. Here’s how these medications work:

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Methadone/Dolophine/Methadose:

This is an opioid agonist and should never be injected. Methadone pills and tablets contain talc. If injected, talc may cause blood clots throughout the body. These clots cause many other problems.

The following clinics offer Methadone,  Buprenorphine and Naltrexone products.

Tacoma South
3727 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, WA 98409
Phone: 253-300-7474
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Lakewood South
9720 South Tacoma Way, Lakewood, WA 98499
Phone: 253-503-3666

You will only receive methadone if you are seeing both a mental healthcare provider and a chemical dependency counselor. NWIH methadone clinics administer methadone orally, as a liquid. 

NWIH co-prescribes naloxone with every methadone prescription.

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Naltrexone/Vivitrol/ReVia:

This is not an opioid. It is an opioid receptor antagonist. This means that it binds to opioid receptors without activating them and makes it more difficult for any other chemicals to bind to the receptors. This results in naltrexone decreasing the euphoria from any opioids or alcohol while naltrexone is in the body. It also reduces the intensity of cravings for opioids and alcohol.

Naltrexone can be taken as an oral tablet or an intramuscular depot injection. A depot injection is a combination of naltrexone and a lipid (fat), which causes the naltrexone to be taken up by receptors more slowly over a very long period.

Naltrexone is not naloxone. Naltrexone is available at every NWIH clinic. 

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Buprenorphine/Suboxone/subutex/Sublocade:

This is a long-lasting, relatively non-euphoric opioid. It reduces the intensity of any opioids which one takes on top of buprenorphine. 

NWIH clinics administer buprenorphine by injecting it under the skin where it’s slowly absorbed by the body for long-term treatment. This medication is available at every NWIH clinic.

NWIH co-prescribes naloxone with every buprenorphine prescription.

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Naloxone:

This is not an opioid. Naloxone is an opioid receptor antagonist. It binds to opioid receptors without activating them, prevents other chemicals from binding to the same receptors, and remove opioids from the body. Naloxone is injected during an opioid overdose. This medication is available at every NWIH clinic.

NWIH co-prescribes naloxone with every methadone and buprenorphine prescription.

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When you come here to NWIH, and go to the groups, and see all the people around you who are there for support, it can be really reassuring to know that you’re not alone. And when patients feel that support and they see the community that’s available to them, I’ve seen plenty of patients feel really relieved, and they can keep moving forward in their journey.

Kelsey Khaw

PA-C MPAS

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At first I was hesitant to do the shot. I wanted to do the sub’s. The doctor “Khan” said the shot would be better so I trusted him and went for the Vivitrol treatment. The hardest part was the 7 day withdrawal before the shot. Dr. Khan gave me some medication to help with the withdrawals which helped but it was still really hard. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get the shot so I could finally start this recovery process. I’ve only been on the shot for one month and what a huge difference it made! Before I couldn’t control or stop myself from going and getting high. The addiction controlled me. Now after the shot, I can control the desire to go get high and the desire to get high is less and less everyday. This shot gave me the biggest tool to finally say no! I think about my addiction less and less and more about my future and what I want out of it. This shot saved my life and brought me back into reality.

Thank you Dr. Khan, you are amazing!

M.L.R.

Patient

I remember a father who came to NWIH. He had been desperately seeking an addiction specialist for his 16 year-old son. He took his son to many treatment places but no provider knew how to treat that patient. We took on that case and successfully treated him. The first thing he asked for was food when he felt well again. His father was so happy. He has finished high school now. That case motivated me to pursue addiction medicine. I want to be that provider who patients would seek out for treatment regardless of the distance needed to travel, and NWIH would be the place they would come to.

Thanh Nguyen

Physician Assistant

The days when I was emotional and crying, they were there to put a hand on my shoulder and say, hey, you’re alright, you’re gonna get through it, here’s a tissue, c’mon dry it up. that’s what’s needed in some of these programs, those moments to acknowledge the feeling, to accept the feeling, and to move on from the feeling, and to have a person next to you, especially clinal staff where they’re not just pushing you aside. That’s what keeps you engaged with the program, that’s what helps you get here on days when its sunny out and you don’t feel like coming. ‘Cause you wanna see the staff who held you up.

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Honestly, like they are really nice people here. They're with you every step of the way.

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What keeps me coming is you know the bottom line, they saved my life.

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Tacoma

SOUTH

3727 South Tacoma Way,
Tacoma, WA 98409
Phone: 253-300-7474
Fax: 253-442-6122

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Tacoma

WESTGATE

5929 Westgate Blvd., Suite A
Tacoma, WA 98406
Phone: 253-503-0226
Fax: 253-625-7912

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Puyallup

3rd. STREET

3800 3rd Street SE,
Puyallup, WA 98374
Phone: 253-200-0415
Fax: 253-845-4742

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Lakewood

SOUTH

9720 South Tacoma Way,
Lakewood, WA 98499
Phone: 253-503-3666
Fax: 253-503-1633

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get treated nearest you. 
See our locations.

Tacoma

SOUTH

3727 South Tacoma Way,
Tacoma, WA 98409
Phone: 253-300-7474
Fax: 253-442-6122

map directions

Tacoma

WESTGATE

5929 Westgate Blvd., Suite A
Tacoma, WA 98406
Phone: 253-503-0226
Fax: 253-625-7912

map directions

Puyallup

3rd. STREET

3800 3rd Street SE,
Puyallup, WA 98374
Phone: 253-200-0415
Fax: 253-845-4742

map directions

Lakewood

SOUTH

9720 South Tacoma Way,
Lakewood, WA 98499
Phone: 253-503-3666
Fax: 253-503-1633

map directions

NWIH does not deny services based on inability. Discounts are available based on family size and income. A discounted/sliding fee schedule is available to all our patients. 

We accept the following insurances:

Aetna, Amerigroup, Cigna, Coordinated Care, First Choice Health, Molina Healthcare, Optum, Premera, Regence, Washington Apple Health

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