Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett in Everett, WA, focuses on outpatient addiction and mental health treatment. Established in 1983, it offers services near Seattle, providing thorough clinical assessments and personalized care plans. Over 100,000 individuals have benefited from their comprehensive support and active alumni community events.
Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and is licensed by the Washington State Department of Health. These credentials highlight their commitment to maintaining high standards of care and adhering to industry best practices.
- Offers customized treatment plans, including life skills workshops and both group and individual therapy.
- Provides medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for mild to moderate alcohol or opioid dependency.
- Encourages family education and involvement in 12-Step recovery programs for ongoing support.
- Hosts an active alumni community with quarterly dinner events and an annual summer picnic.
Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett specializes in treating substance abuse and mental health issues, particularly benefiting adults who need outpatient services rather than inpatient care. Men and women can access intensive outpatient programs and personalized continuing care plans.
- 2+ Accreditations
- 20 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 7 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 27 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
NAATP

CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction is one of Washington‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.
Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Dual-Diagnosis Treatment in Everett, WA
Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in Everett, WA like Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detox treatment begins when the patient leaves their surroundings of family and friends, which is usually when they are most vulnerable. Being in a safe environment surrounded by medical professionals provides them with the safety net many of them need to get over their addiction. With kind and caring staff members, patients can feel relaxed, and they will need to start by admitting that they have a problem in order to get better.
If a person goes through detox treatment, they will understand their addiction better, and they won’t want to relapse and lose all the benefits of sobriety. They can see the effects of using drugs and how it makes them feel, which will make them want to quit their addiction.
Drug detox is vital to the recovery process, and it ensures that a patient will be in a safe environment during their withdrawal.
An inpatient is a person who stays in a hospital or rehab center during treatment. For alcohol- and drug-dependent individuals, inpatient rehabs provide individualized around-the-clock services. Inpatient treatment programs address a person’s unique physical, medical, and psychological needs. A team of experts assess the severity of the addiction and design a highly tailored program. typically, the length of stay in an inpatient facility in Everett, WA is 30 days. Those with severe addiction may need to stay at the facility for 60 to 90 days.
Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Washington IOP, like what’s offerd at Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.
After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett in recovering from addiction.
Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.
Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett in Everett, WA and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.
The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers - Everett. It was initially developed by the founders of Alcoholics anonymous. The program provides the benefit of cognitive restructuring. It refers to the process of change in the negative thoughts that leads to long-term benefits.
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Location & Contact

111 SE Everett Mall Way Building F
Everett, WA 98208
Phone Number
(425) 267-9573
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Everett, Washington Addiction and Treatment
Washington's substance use, abuse, and addiction rates have followed the trends of the rest of the over the past years. Methamphetamine abuse is the biggest threat to Washington. Heroin-related overdoses increased by almost 450% from 2006 to 2016. 20% of all annual deaths in Washington are somehow drug and/or alcohol-related. Drugs are widely abused in Washington because they are easily trafficked in and out of the state.
Everett, a city located 25 miles north of Seattle, sits on a peninsula between Port Gardner Bay and the Snohomish River. The city offers outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and water sports, as well as a lively arts and music scene downtown. From 2011 to 2013, approximately 1 in 5 heroin deaths in Washington state occurred in Snohomish County, and from the first quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023, the county saw a 68.2% increase in overdose deaths.
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