A look behind King County’s largest addiction treatment center [Video]

King County’s largest outpatient addiction treatment center is now open in Renton.

Ideal Option has locations nationwide, but the newest facility in Renton can provide services for up to 75 patients per day. The lab can process 600 specimens per day and has the capacity to process around 2,000 per day in the future.

“We intentionally chose this location for its availability to the greater region. It provides us with a unique space that can be inclusive of our labs so that we can do all of our lab screening in house,” April Provost, the community outreach coordinator for Ideal Option in Western Washington, said.

Provost shared with KIRO 7 her own story of battling addiction.

“A little over five years ago I was still strung out in a tent down by a river,” she said. “I went from a working professional, mom with a white picket fence to homelessness.” What she …