Ideal Option has opened a new addiction medicine center in Yakima to treat patients with medicine-based plans.

YAKIMA, Wash.-Ideal Option has opened a new addiction medicine center in Yakima.

Ideal Option provides evidence-based outpatient treatment for addiction to fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, alcohol and polysubstance and the new center will merge the two existing clinics into one location at 602 N 39th Ave.

“Yakima has been hit particularly hard by the street drug epidemic, so a high-capacity centralized, low-barrier resource like this is desperately needed," said Tyler Vermillion, Ideal Option community outreach coordinator for Eastern Washington.

The new clinic is the largest of its kind in Yakima, has the capacity to see up to 75 patients per day and is staffed with three addiction medicine providers and five medical assistants, as well as a peer outreach specialist, according to an Ideal Option press release on the new clinic.

With the expansion of its in-house laboratory, Ideal Option can detect substances and create personalized treatment plans.

Ideal Options new Yakima Treatment Center is open Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. There are no waitlists for patients and Medicaid is accepted.

"We hope this beautiful new center will help to normalize treatment and encourage more people suffering from substance use disorder in Yakima County to begin their recovery and reclaim their lives," said Vermillion.