West Texas Counseling & Rehab

WTCR Programs. Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. Offering methadone, buprenorphine (Suboxone) and counseling services. Locations across Texas.

As one of the longest-serving medication assisted treatment networks in Texas, WTCR specializes in methadone and buprenorphine treatment and counseling for individuals suffering from Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).  Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of our patients so that they may disrupt the cycle of OUD and have their best chance for a long-term meaningful recovery.

Evidence in the medical literature and our decades of treatment experience have shown that medication-assisted therapies including methadone and buprenorphine are among the most effective treatment modalities in patients suffering from OUD.  At WTCR, our goal is to help the addicted individual gain control over the constellation of behaviors that define opiate addiction and that have led to the destruction of the essential stabilizing elements of the patient’s life.

There is strong medical evidence validating the use of methadone and buprenorphine as opiate agonist therapy, and medication provides an important stabilization for the patient.  

We will facilitate medically supervised withdrawal from opiate agonist therapy when appropriate, but we recognize that OUD is a chronic medical illness that may require long-term (sometimes lifelong) treatment.

WTCR offers outpatient treatment for OUD using opiate agonist therapy with methadone and buprenorphine.  Generally, these medications are used for their properties as agonists or partial agonists to offer patients long-term stabilization of objective and subjective withdrawal and symptoms of craving, as part of a broader service offering that includes counseling and therapeutic interventions. Giving these medications allows patients to feel “normalized” and engage in counseling and other interventions to address the behavioral disruptions of addiction.

At WTCR, we believe that the provision of any medication alone is insufficient to secure long-term recovery for addiction.  Patients must make a dramatic change in their lives to avoid the stimuli for their prior drug use and embrace a new way of thinking about themselves and their illness.  Counseling helps people with OUD change how they think, cope, react, and acquire the skills and confidence necessary for recovery, and can provide support for people who take medication to treat their OUD.