Mel Med LLC

Mel Med LLC offers two levels of outpatient care for people pursuing recovery from addiction in Spartanburg County and beyond. The standard outpatient program centers on personalized recovery plans, addiction medication management, and telemedicine appointments — giving participants the structure of professional clinical oversight without requiring residential placement. For individuals who are earlier in the process, outpatient detox provides medically supervised withdrawal support through medication tapering, managed by Dr. Fritsche, who is board certified in Addiction Medicine.

This outpatient model is built for people who are committed to recovery but need to remain part of their daily lives — holding jobs, caring for family members, or maintaining housing — while receiving consistent medical support. Telemedicine access means that distance from the Spartanburg office or transportation limitations do not have to disrupt the continuity of a recovery plan. The practice serves patients across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Mel Med LLC specifically serves LGBTQ and transgender individuals, and the practice is direct about what that means: 'You are safe here.' This is not a peripheral detail — it is a stated pillar of how Dr. Fritsche has built the practice. For members of the LGBTQ community who have encountered barriers or discomfort in traditional treatment settings, Mel Med represents an outpatient addiction recovery option where identity is not an obstacle to care.

The affirming environment extends across all services the practice offers, including outpatient detox, medication management, and telemedicine. People in the LGBTQ community navigating opioid addiction, alcohol addiction, or nicotine addiction — as well as those managing Hepatitis C alongside substance use — can access care from a physician who has built the practice around the principle that connection between patient and provider is foundational to recovery.

Every patient at Mel Med LLC is under the care of Dr. Melissa Fritsche, a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia who holds board certifications in both Addiction Medicine and Family Medicine. She has been working specifically in addiction care since 2017 and holds active licenses in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. That combination of addiction specialty training and family medicine background allows her to treat the whole picture of a patient's health within the outpatient setting — including conditions like Hepatitis C that frequently co-occur with substance use disorders.

The practice's clinical tools include addiction medication, medication tapering for outpatient detox, and Narcan and needle prescriptions — practical, medically grounded resources that support people at different points in their recovery. For individuals evaluating outpatient programs and looking for a recovery center where a physician is directly and consistently involved in their care, Mel Med offers that relationship by design.

One of the structural features that distinguishes Mel Med from many outpatient addiction treatment practices is its integration of telemedicine into the core of the program — not as an emergency fallback, but as a built-in access point. Patients working through personalized recovery plans can maintain consistent contact with Dr. Fritsche through telemedicine appointments, reducing the friction that often causes people to disengage from outpatient care when life gets complicated.

The practice is located at 1451 E Main St, Suite 2A in Spartanburg, SC, and can be reached at (864) 586-3979 or by email at [email protected]. For individuals in Spartanburg County and across the tri-state area who are ready to build a sustainable outpatient recovery plan with physician-level medical support, Mel Med provides a direct, accessible path to ongoing care.