About
About Center for Alcohol and Drug Trt
The Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment, often shortened to CADT, has anchored substance use and mental health care in Duluth for decades. The organization’s main address is 1402 East Superior Street, where the upper level houses detox and withdrawal management and the lower level houses Clearpath admissions for mental health. The main switchboard is 218-723-8444, and admissions for the various programs are routed through dedicated phone lines and email aliases at cadt.org.
Clinical services are organized into an Addiction Medicine Clinic and a network of outpatient and residential sites. The Addiction Medicine Clinic combines detox and withdrawal management, the Clearpath mental health program, and Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT), with OBOT operating from a separate location at 810 East 4th Street in the Bridgewater building. Outpatient programs — including intensive outpatient, adult and adolescent SUD services, gambling intervention, mental health services, and walk-in assessments — run from 314 West Superior Street, Suite 400. Two residential programs serve men at the Howard Friese house locations on Greysolon Road and East 2nd Street, and the Marty Mann Women’s Residential Program operates from 714 North 11th Avenue East.
CADT is CARF-accredited and listed in SAMHSA’s findtreatment.gov directory. Accepted payment methods include Medicaid, private insurance, TRICARE, self-pay, and state insurance. The program documents serving deaf and hard-of-hearing patients and partners with Clarity Interpreting Services for 24/7 language interpretation. SAMHSA’s data confirms the facility’s detox and residential capabilities along with cognitive behavioral therapy as a core therapeutic approach.
For patients and families researching Duluth-area treatment, CADT’s combination of detox, residential, outpatient, and mental health services under one organizational roof is the distinguishing feature. The site emphasizes a holistic approach to substance use disorders and mental health, with referral pathways for adult SUD, adolescent SUD, mental health, and gambling concerns all accessible from the same admissions infrastructure.
- 24/7 medical supervision with continuous withdrawal management protocols
- CARF accreditation ensuring clinical standards for medical detox services
- Specialized accessibility services for deaf and hard of hearing patients
- Integrated medication-assisted treatment during medical detox
- On-site residential treatment following detox completion