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Substance use services
King County is taking multiple actions to prevent substance use, overdoses, save lives, and help people into recovery. We want everyone to know that treatment works and people recover every day.
How to Connect
Call our Client Services line: 206-263-8997 or 1-800-790-8049
We are here to answer questions and help find an agency that fits your needs.
Find providers who offer substance use treatment
Washington Recovery Help Line: 866-789-1511, 24 hours
Call the Washington Recovery Help Line for free, caring, confidential help or to get a substance use disorder assessment with a provider within 24 hours.
Treatments
- 24/7 TeleBup: Anyone age 13 or older in King County can call anytime to get a free Buprenorphine prescription: 206-289-0287. Buprenorphine reduces opioid cravings, withdrawal symptoms and protects from overdose.
- Naloxone can help stop an opioid overdose. It is available at pharmacies or order for free online on phra.org/naloxone (in English or Spanish).
- Overdose preventions supplies like fentanyl test strips inform you if your drugs have been mixed/laced with fentanyl. Anyone can pick up stripsfor free at vending machines in these locations, which also distribute Naloxone: Peer Seattle, Peer Kent, Compass Day Center (Seattle), YouthCare's Orion Center (Seattle).
- Clinics: Search for methadone clinics, buprenorphine based programs, and naltrexone based programs: WA Recovery Helpline MOUD Locator More than 20 clinics in King County offer medication for opioid use on a walk-in basis.
- Residential Treatment is a place people can go to receive longer term care and support in recovering from substance use disorder.
- Provides counseling, including individual meetings with a counselor and group meetings that provide education and information about substance use. A counselor helps each client develop their own recovery plan.
- To get an appointment for a substance use disorder assessment within 24 hours, call the Washington Recovery Help Line: 866-789-1511
- A network of five crisis care centers will be opening throughout King County in the coming years where anyone experiencing a substance use related crisis can walk-in 24/7 to receive the urgent care they need to stabilize. Substance use services include medication for opioid use, medically supervised withdrawal, a treatment plan, and more.
- In the meantime, Connections Health Solutions operates a walk-in urgent behavioral health care clinic that is now open in Kirkland: 405 Kirkland Corporate Center I connectionshs.com/nkc
- King County offers a safe place for people living unsheltered to safely sleep off the acute effects of intoxication and connect to treatment, housing assistance, and other supports.
- King County's Emergency Service Patrol (ESP) is a 24/7 transportation and engagement unit that cares for people under the influence of substances and patrols the downtown Seattle core to help people in need of services. It also transports persons being discharged from the sobering center to other service providers or community locations.
- The Downtown Emergency Service Center will operate a new treatment center in Downtown Seattle for people to receive care after an overdose. The facility will open in 2025.
King County Behavioral Health and Recovery Division contracts with two facilities for withdrawal management (detox) services for people in need of detox from alcohol and other drugs. Detox is a medically supervised service with the goal of safely ensuring that people are stable coming off of alcohol or drug and then transitioning them on to the appropriate ongoing care.
The two detox facilities are:
Recovery Place Seattle at Beacon Hill
Detox & Inpatient SUD Treatment Services
1701 18th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone: 253-833-7444
Metropolitan Development Council
945 Fawcett Ave
Tacoma, 98042, 253-383-3921