About the Clinics

Our first methadone clinic in Oak Ridges opened in 1995 and has since moved to Newmarket to better serve the ever growing population in need of methadone in York Region. Within a few years of the first clinic offering treatment, the Woodbridge clinic opened its doors in 1997. In February 2000, the Barrie Addiction Treatment Centre established itself to better serve the local population in that area. By December of 2000, the Kitchener Clinic came into operation to help treat the large population of opiate users in that area. This move, in turn, spawned the opening of the Owen Sound Clinic, the Cambridge Clinic and the Guelph Clinic. A few months later, the Mississauga Clinic and the North York Clinic joined with the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres to form the largest group of methadone clients serviced anywhere in Canada. By February of 2003, OATC was pleased to once again open up additional clinics in two under serviced areas. The Peterborough Clinic along with the Lindsay Clinic represented the first expansion into the eastern regions of the Province. Soon after, and in response to growing pressure from the Belleville community to better serve the increasing number of individuals on methadone who were forced to travel all the way to Oshawa and Kingston to get help, the Belleville clinic opened its doors in March 2003. Once firmly established, the OATC once again expanded by opening a clinic in Kingston. By late 2003, the OATC had made a commitment to move into as many under serviced areas of the Province as possible. In keeping with this, our Sault Ste. Marie Clinic opened in December of 2003 as well as did our Niagara Falls clinic. With some of our newest clinics opening in Brampton, Ottawa, Sudbury, Cornwall, Vanier and Thunder Bay North and South, the OATC has become established as the Province’s largest network of clinics providing a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive model for the delivery of care within Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs.

Of great interest, is our recent expansion into the northwest. As such, Longlac, Ontario saw one of the first methadone clinics opened in the Province to help the ever growing epidemic of untreated drug addiction amongst our Country’s First Nations. By helping those directly on the Reserves, word quickly spread as the effectiveness of this treatment modality. This resulted in the opening of the first ever methadone clinic directly on a First Nations Reserve, namely Constance Lake in June 2006. This is by far one of OATC’s proudest achievements. Helping those in the Province that have been not only isolated but vastly under treated will no doubt translate into healthy generations of our Aboriginal communities. Our goal is to rid these communities of drug addition in order to foster health, wealth and prosperity for our Country’s proudest people.

Since its inception, these clinics run by the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres have treated over 10,000 clients, and have become one of the most well known MMTP in North America. Currently, we are treating one third of the entire patient population in Ontario consuming methadone. We are dedicated to optimizing methadone maintenance therapy and seek to work closely with our patients, community partners, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care for the many years to come.