Substance Use Treatment in Cambridge, MA

North Charles Institute for the Addict: Counseling and Administrative Offices

What Does North Charles Institute for the Addict: Counseling and Administrative Offices Offer?

North Charles Institute for the Addict: Counseling and Administrative Offices is a substance use treatment facility at 2500 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, offering detox and outpatient treatment. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale and payment assistance. Medication treatment: methadone (certified opioid treatment program).

2500 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02140

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Loading map…

Treatment facility (SAMHSA listing)This facility

Types of Care at North Charles Institute for the Addict: Counseling and Administrative Offices

  • Outpatient
  • Outpatient detoxification
  • Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
  • Regular outpatient treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • SAMHSA funding/block grants
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Medication Treatment

  • Federally-certified Opioid Treatment Program
  • Methadone detoxification
  • Methadone maintenance
  • Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
  • Methadone

Detox Services

  • Opioids detoxification

Who the Program Serves

  • Adult men
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors
  • Accepts: Female
  • Accepts: Male
  • Opioid use disorder clients only

Licensing and Accreditation

  • State substance use treatment agency
  • State department of health
  • Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
  • SAMHSA certification for opioid treatment program (OTP)

Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Contingency management/motivational incentives
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Matrix Model
  • Relapse prevention
  • Substance use disorder counseling
  • Trauma-related counseling
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Comprehensive substance use assessment
  • Complete medical history/physical exam
  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Screening for substance use
  • Screening for mental disorders
  • Aftercare/continuing care
  • Discharge Planning
  • Naloxone and overdose education
  • Outcome follow-up after discharge
  • Assistance with obtaining social services
  • Case management service
  • Mental health services
  • Social skills development
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
  • Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
  • Drug or alcohol urine screening
  • TB screening
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to choose a rehab you can trust lists the questions to ask when you call, and addiction treatment in Massachusetts lists the state's treatment agency.

Other Treatment Facilities Near North Charles Institute for the Addict: Counseling and Administrative Offices

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Cambridge treatment page.

McLean Hospital, Belmont

115 Mill Street, Mail Stop 222, Belmont, MA 02478 · 3.2 mi

617-855-2215

  • Detox
  • Hospital inpatient care
  • Outpatient treatment
  • Methadone
  • Buprenorphine
  • Naltrexone
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

Rehab Help is an independent guide, not a treatment provider. Phone numbers on this site are the facilities' and helplines' own numbers, never tracking lines. If someone is in danger right now, call 911.