Hartford Dispensary

About Hartford Dispensary

Hartford Dispensary in Torrington, Connecticut, is part of Root Center for Advanced Recovery, a behavioral health organization that treats more than 5,500 people across the state each day for substance use and mental health conditions. They take a whole-person, evidence-based approach and draw on more than 50 years of recovery experience, aiming to meet people at their current stage and help them work toward their own goals. Their care centers on medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, and the organization’s continuum also includes intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, adult day treatment, and a newly opened residential facility.

Medication-assisted treatment is available to adults and teens using methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone, always paired with counseling and behavioral therapy to ease cravings and withdrawal and support long-term stability. For people who need more structure while still living at home, the partial hospitalization and adult day programs meet four hours a day, five days a week, usually for one to two weeks before stepping down to IOP, with morning and evening IOP options available in person or virtually. Small groups of six to twelve people cover relapse prevention, trauma, mindfulness, stress management, communication, and life skills, along with specialized groups for LGBTQ clients, veterans, abuse survivors, and gender-specific concerns, while individual therapy, family therapy, and medication management are added as needed. Root Center also runs a weekly problem gambling group that explores how gambling and substance use connect, as well as a drop-in art therapy-informed open studio for creative expression.