Cortez Addiction Recovery Services Inc DBA The Recovery Center

The Recovery Center fills a real gap in Southwest Colorado's treatment landscape. Cortez and Montezuma County are rural communities where access to structured addiction treatment has historically meant traveling long distances or leaving home entirely. By offering outpatient, intensive outpatient, medication-assisted treatment, and outpatient withdrawal management in one location, the center creates a local continuum that allows residents to move through levels of care without displacement from their support systems.

Intensive outpatient programming is particularly well-suited for people stepping down from residential treatment, those in early recovery who need more structure than standard outpatient provides, or individuals who cannot leave work, school, or family responsibilities. Outpatient withdrawal management — available through the center — means that for eligible clients, the stabilization process itself can begin locally, setting the foundation for the longer recovery work that follows.

Medication-assisted treatment at The Recovery Center addresses opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder within an outpatient setting, pairing medical support with the counseling and recovery services that sustain change over time. MAT is not positioned as a standalone intervention here — it sits alongside group counseling, relapse prevention, and peer recovery support as part of a broader treatment approach designed for the long term.

Peer recovery support is a meaningful part of what the center offers. For a recovery community audience, peer support represents something clinical services alone cannot provide: lived experience, accountability, and the kind of connection that makes the difference between white-knuckling sobriety and building an actual recovery life. The presence of peer support alongside case management and life skills programming reflects a model oriented toward what happens after the treatment episode ends.

Aftercare support at The Recovery Center includes relapse prevention planning, peer recovery support, case management, and a dedicated life skills program. These are not incidental add-ons — they represent the center's orientation toward recovery as an ongoing process that extends well beyond any single program episode. For people who have been through treatment before, or who understand that sobriety requires structural change, this emphasis on post-treatment support matters.

Case management connects clients with the broader resources they need — whether that means navigating healthcare, housing, employment, or social services. The life skills program addresses the practical competencies that substance use disorders often disrupt. Together, these aftercare components reflect what recovery community members already know: that the work of building a stable, sober life requires more than clinical treatment alone.

The Recovery Center serves adults, adolescents, youth, women, and pregnant women — a population range that acknowledges recovery does not look the same for everyone and that rural communities need services that address their full demographic reality. The center treats opioid use disorder, alcohol use disorder, co-occurring mental health disorders, and a range of other substance use conditions, meaning that many people who might otherwise feel their situation is too complicated for a local outpatient program will find appropriate care here.

For families in Montezuma County supporting someone in recovery, The Recovery Center represents a local partner in the long-term work of rebuilding. The outpatient model keeps people embedded in their community rather than extracting them from it — which for many individuals in recovery is not a limitation but an asset, allowing them to practice and test recovery skills in the actual context of their daily lives.