Stimulant addiction treatment · Hopkins, Minnesota
Stimulant Addiction Treatment Minneapolis, Minnesota
Stimulant rehab on an outpatient basis for adults using meth, cocaine, or prescription stimulants, treated in the life you are trying to keep.
Northwoods Haven Recovery treats stimulant use disorder on an outpatient basis for adults in Minneapolis and across the Twin Cities, from our center in Hopkins. That includes methamphetamine, cocaine and crack, and prescription stimulants such as Adderall, Ritalin, and Vyvanse. Group therapy, individual counseling with your own licensed alcohol and drug counselor, and treatment for the mental health conditions that stimulants so often mask. You go home after every session.
In-network with Minnesota Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield, HealthPartners, UnitedHealthcare, and Medica
Stimulant use disorder
Meth, cocaine, or a prescription bottle. One outpatient path.
One pattern
Energy borrowed against tomorrow.
Stimulants differ in how they are sold and who uses them, but the pattern they create is remarkably similar: energy borrowed against tomorrow, and a crash that gets harder to pay back.
3
Stimulant groups we treat: meth, cocaine, and prescription stimulants
2 to 4
Months in IOP, then the Relapse Prevention Program step-down
18+
Adults, including young adults
0
Nights away from home. Every level of care here is outpatient
What stimulant addiction is
Different drugs, the same borrowed energy
Stimulants are a class of drugs that speed up the central nervous system. They raise dopamine and norepinephrine, which sharpens focus, lifts mood, suppresses appetite, and pushes sleep away. The class includes methamphetamine, cocaine in both powder and crack form, and prescription amphetamines and methylphenidate, the medications sold as Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, and Concerta. A doctor can prescribe the last group for ADHD, and taken as directed they are safe and effective for most people. The disorder begins when use escapes the prescription, or when there never was one.
Stimulant use disorder is the diagnosis for a pattern of use you cannot rein in despite the damage it is doing. The criteria are the same across the class: using more or longer than intended, failing to cut back, cravings, giving up things that mattered, and continuing despite problems at work, at home, or with your health. What differs is the texture. Meth tends toward multi-day runs and psychosis. Cocaine tends toward binges tied to drinking and nightlife. Prescription stimulants tend to start small, a few extra pills during finals or a deadline, and grow quietly.
Because the class shares a biology, it shares a treatment. Outpatient stimulant treatment at Northwoods Haven Recovery starts with a chemical use assessment that identifies which substances are involved and how severe the pattern is. Stimulant withdrawal is rarely medically dangerous, so most people begin programming right after intake. We treat methamphetamine, cocaine, and Adderall addiction, and each has its own specifics. The path through treatment is the same for all three.
One thing to be clear about
We are outpatient only. No detox, no inpatient, no residential care, no medical services, and we do not prescribe or adjust ADHD medication. If you take a prescribed stimulant as directed, you are welcome here; tell us during the assessment so your plan accounts for it. If you are psychotic or medically unstable, an emergency department needs to see you first.
Our space
Inside our outpatient treatment center in Hopkins, Minnesota
A safe haven should feel like one. Our suite on Green Oak Drive looks out over water and trees, and the rooms where groups meet were built to feel calm, comfortable, and homey. Not clinical, not institutional. You are more than your diagnosis here, and the space is meant to say so before anyone does.
The lounge
Where people land and catch their breath before group.
The group room
Three hours a day, in a circle, with people who understand.
The view
Water and treeline out every window: the northwoods, in the metro.
Another Group Room
Three hours a day, in a circle, with people who understand.
Quiet corners
Somewhere to sit with a thing before you say it out loud.
Room to breathe
Daylight and treeline out every window. No clinical fluorescence.
Signs and symptoms
Signs stimulant use has become a disorder
Whether the stimulant comes from a dealer or a pharmacy, the warning signs rhyme. If a few of these fit, an assessment is worth the hour.
Behavioral
Use that escalates
Taking more than you meant to, running out of a prescription early, staying up through the night to keep going, and planning your week around when and how you will get more.
Physical
The body under strain
Rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils, jaw clenching, weight loss, insomnia, nosebleeds from snorting, sores or dental damage with meth, and a crash of exhaustion when the drug wears off.
Consequences
Damage that accumulates
Missed work or classes after a run, money problems, relationship strain, legal trouble, or grades and performance that were supposed to improve and did the opposite.
Psychological
Mood and thinking
Anxiety, irritability, or paranoia while using, a flat depressed stretch afterward, cravings triggered by stress or deadlines, and a growing belief that you cannot function without it.
Withdrawal and health effects
What stimulant withdrawal feels like, and what the drugs do over time
Stimulant withdrawal is mostly a matter of the brain and body catching up on what was borrowed. Within a day of the last use most people crash: long sleep, big appetite, exhaustion, and a low mood that can be steep. The acute phase passes within a week or two. After that comes a longer stretch, often several weeks and sometimes months, of flat mood, low motivation, trouble concentrating, and cravings. This is uncomfortable, and it is the period when most relapses happen, but it is not medically dangerous for the vast majority of people. Alcohol and benzodiazepines are a different story: they often come along with stimulant use, and stopping either abruptly can be dangerous, so a medical provider needs to be involved if they are in the picture.
The health effects during use are where stimulants do their real damage. All of them stress the heart, raising blood pressure and heart rate and increasing the risk of heart attack, stroke, and dangerous rhythms. Meth adds dental and skin damage and a real risk of psychosis with heavy use. Cocaine adds nasal damage and, combined with alcohol, a compound that is harder on the heart than either alone. Prescription stimulants misused at high doses carry the same cardiac and psychiatric risks as their illicit cousins, plus the risk of dependence that started with a legitimate need.
Stimulants also interact with mental health in both directions. People with untreated ADHD, depression, anxiety, or trauma often reach for stimulants because they help, at first. Heavy use then worsens anxiety, triggers paranoia, and leaves a depression in its wake. At Northwoods Haven Recovery co-occurring conditions are treated alongside the stimulant use from the beginning, so the thing you were medicating gets addressed rather than left waiting.
If someone is in danger now
Chest pain, a seizure, a very high body temperature, severe agitation, or psychosis during or after stimulant use is a medical emergency. Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. Treatment here can start once the person is medically stable.
Who it is for
Outpatient stimulant treatment is probably the right fit if you
- Use meth, cocaine, or prescription stimulants in a pattern you have tried to stop and cannot
- Have work, school, or family you are not willing to leave for weeks to get treatment
- Started with a prescription or a study aid and now cannot get through a day without it
- Are using stimulants to manage depression, anxiety, trauma, or untreated ADHD, and want the underlying condition addressed too
- Have finished detox, a residential stay, or a stretch in jail and need structure for the flat months when relapse risk is highest
Not sure yet
A comprehensive assessment answers it.
A chemical use assessment determines which stimulants are involved, whether the pattern meets criteria for a stimulant use disorder, how severe it is, and which level of care fits, here or somewhere better suited to you. It also screens for alcohol and other substances that often come along. If you already have a recent assessment, send it over and we will review it instead of repeating it.
For families
About half our calls are from someone else.
You can ask a question without committing anyone to anything, and family involvement is part of the work when the client wants it.
How we treat it
How stimulant addiction treatment works at Northwoods Haven Recovery
The specific stimulant shapes the first weeks: the crash, the cravings, the cues. It does not change the level of care, the therapies, or the counselors. Meth, cocaine, and prescription stimulants are all treated on the same outpatient path.
Step one
Chemical use assessment
An hour with a licensed counselor that identifies what you are using, how severe the pattern is, and which level of care fits. If medical care is needed first, we help you find it and welcome you back after.
Where everyone starts
Most people start here
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Three-hour groups most programming days, individual counseling with your own counselor, and co-occurring mental health treatment. About two to four months, covering the stretch when flat mood and cravings run highest.
Explore IOP →
Then
Relapse Prevention Program
Ten to twelve weeks of low-intensity outpatient care with the same counselors. Your cues named, a written plan in hand, and support close by as energy and focus return on their own.
Explore relapse prevention →
Therapies
Evidence-based addiction therapies, taught as options, not prescriptions.
We’ll walk you through every approach we use and why, then build your plan around the ones that fit your beliefs and your life. No single pathway, no ideology, no judgment.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Find the thought patterns that drive use, and learn to interrupt them.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Skills for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and hard relationships.
Acceptance & commitment therapy
Move toward what you actually value, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Motivational interviewing
Your reasons for changing, in your words. Nobody lectures you here.
Individual counseling
Your own licensed counselor, where the plan gets built and adjusted.
Group therapy
Three hours a day with people who know the terrain you’re crossing.
Addiction counseling
One-on-one counseling with your own chemical dependency counselor.
Trauma-informed care
Care that accounts for what happened to you, not what’s wrong with you.
Relapse prevention and aftercare planning run through every level of care rather than sitting off to the side, and whole-person care means mental health psychoeducation happens alongside all of it.
Substance use
Every substance use disorder we treat in Minnesota
Seven groups, one outpatient path. The substance shapes the withdrawal risk and the early weeks, not the level of care or the counselors you work with.
The most common reason people call us, and the one most often hidden behind a functioning life.
Prescription opioids, heroin, and the fentanyl that now contaminates most of the illicit supply. Detox often comes first. We do not provide it, but we help you find it.
Methamphetamine, cocaine, and prescription stimulants. Group work is where most of the traction comes from.
Benzodiazepines, sleep medications, and other prescriptions that started as treatment. Stopping abruptly can be dangerous, so a medical provider guides the taper.
Legal does not mean harmless. Cannabis use disorder is a real diagnosis.
LSD, ecstasy and MDMA, ketamine, and PCP. Usually part of a wider pattern, which is what the assessment sorts out.
Inhalants, nitrous oxide, and substances that show up faster than the research does.
Not on the list?
This list is not a filter. Call us and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit, and help you find who is if we are not.
Mental health
Co-occurring mental health conditions we treat alongside addiction
Treating one and ignoring the other does not work. Northwoods Haven Recovery treats co-occurring mental health conditions alongside chemical dependency programming. If your needs are mental-health-primary, a program built for that will serve you better, and we will help you find one.
Trauma and PTSD
Care that accounts for what happened to you, not what is wrong with you.
Depression
The loop between using and feeling worse, treated from both ends at once.
Anxiety
Using to quiet it works for an hour and costs more than that.
Bipolar disorder
Care that steadies mood episodes while chemical dependency programming continues.
ADHD
Structure and skills for adult ADHD when stimulants, alcohol, or cannabis became the coping strategy.
Something else?
If a mental health condition is tangled with substance use, tell us. We treat both together or help you find who can.
Paying for treatment
Insurance-covered addiction treatment that's accessible to anyone who wants it.
Medicaid was the first network we joined, on purpose. We’re also in-network with major commercial plans. We’ll verify your benefits and tell you plainly what your plan covers before you commit to anything.
Minnesota Medicaid
Blue Cross Blue Shield
HealthPartners
UnitedHealthcare
Hennepin Health
Medica
Private Pay
Not listed? Call and we'll check.
Common questions
Questions people ask about stimulant addiction treatment
If yours is not here, ask us directly. We would rather tell you honestly that we are not the right fit than have you find out later.
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What counts as a stimulant?
Stimulants are drugs that speed up the nervous system. The ones we treat are methamphetamine, cocaine and crack, and prescription stimulants such as Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, and Concerta. Caffeine and nicotine are technically stimulants too, but they are not what we treat here.
Can stimulant addiction be treated on an outpatient basis?
Yes. Stimulant withdrawal is rarely medically dangerous, so most people can start outpatient treatment right after intake without a detox stay. At Northwoods Haven Recovery you attend group therapy and individual counseling several days a week and live at home throughout. If a higher level of care is the better fit, we will say so and help you find it.
Do you treat meth, cocaine, and Adderall in the same program?
Yes. The substances differ, but the disorder and the treatment are the same. Groups include people using different stimulants, and your individual counseling is tailored to your substance and your pattern. We treat meth, cocaine, and Adderall addiction individually as well, with the specifics of each.
How long does stimulant withdrawal last?
The crash usually lasts a few days to two weeks: heavy sleep, hunger, exhaustion, and low mood. A flatter stretch of low motivation and cravings can follow for weeks or months as the brain recalibrates. It is uncomfortable but not medically dangerous for most people, and it does end.
I have ADHD and a prescription. Can I still come here?
Yes. Taking a prescribed stimulant as directed is not a substance use disorder, and we will not ask you to stop a medication your doctor prescribed. We do not prescribe or adjust medication. If misuse of that prescription or another substance is the concern, tell us during the assessment so your plan accounts for both.
Is there a medication that treats stimulant addiction?
There is currently no medication approved specifically for stimulant use disorder, so behavioral therapy and counseling are the core of treatment. If a medical provider has prescribed something for sleep, mood, or another condition, you are welcome here. Tell us during the assessment.
How long is stimulant rehab at Northwoods Haven Recovery?
Most people spend about two to four months in our Intensive Outpatient Program, then ten to twelve weeks in the Relapse Prevention Program. Your plan is reviewed as you go, so the timeline reflects your progress rather than a fixed package.
Does insurance cover stimulant addiction treatment?
We are in-network with Minnesota Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield, HealthPartners, UnitedHealthcare, and Medica. Give us your plan information on the first call and we will verify your benefits and tell you plainly what is covered before you commit.
Related articles
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Getting started
How to get started: four steps, no waiting eleven days.
Reaching out doesn’t commit you to anything. It means you asked a question, and we answered it.
01
Call
We listen to what’s going on and where you are in the process. No script, no pressure.
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Chemical use assessment
A comprehensive assessment to determine diagnosis and the level of care that fits.
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Referral to the right care
Ideally with us. If another program fits you better, we’ll connect you to it.
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Intake
Programming starts immediately after intake. Already have an assessment? Send it over and we’ll review it.
Your team
Meet the counselors who answer the phone and guide your treatment.
Take the first step
When you're ready, we're here.
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Referring professionals
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Northwoods Haven Recovery
5900 Green Oak Drive, Ste 306
Hopkins, MN 55343