About nine miles, across the county line
Outpatient Addiction Treatment Near Williamstown, NJ
Nine Miles From Williamstown, Across the County Line
South Jersey Recovery Program has one office, at 1044 NJ-73 in Berlin. From the center of Williamstown that is about nine miles, roughly a 15 to 20 minute drive outside rush hour. Our office is in Camden County. Williamstown is in Gloucester County, and that line decides which county services you can use.
Nine miles is not far for one appointment. Outpatient treatment is not one appointment. In partial care you come five days a week. In intensive outpatient you come five days a week at first and three as you step down. That is a round trip of close to twenty miles, most days of the week, for weeks. Other licensed outpatient programs may be closer to you than we are, and the SAMHSA locator at findtreatment.gov lists them by distance from your ZIP code. If the drive is the fragile part of your plan, closer is a real advantage.
We are an outpatient provider. We treat substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions while you live at home. We do not provide detox or residential treatment. If that is what you need first, we will say so and help you arrange it.
Williamstown Is Part of Monroe Township
Williamstown is a mailing address and a community, not a municipality. It is an unincorporated part of Monroe Township, and a large part: the 2020 Census counted 15,082 people in Williamstown out of 37,117 in the township, about two in five. The township’s municipal building is on Virginia Avenue in Williamstown. If you live elsewhere in Monroe Township and use a different mailing address, everything below applies to you as well.
The township is the unit that counts. Your municipal court is Monroe Township’s, the police who answer a 911 call are Monroe Township’s, and the state reports your treatment admission under Monroe Township. There is no separate figure for Williamstown, so the numbers below are the township’s.
New Jersey has a second Monroe Township, in Middlesex County. When you look up services or data, check that you are reading the Gloucester County one.
Getting to Berlin From Williamstown
Take Sicklerville Road (County Route 536 Spur) north out of Williamstown. It runs through Sicklerville, becomes Williamstown-New Freedom Road and then Taunton Road, and brings you to Route 73 in Berlin. There is no toll on the way and there is parking at the office.
Transit is the weak link. Two NJ Transit routes stop in Williamstown, and neither one comes to us. The 400 runs from Sicklerville through Williamstown, Turnersville, and Blackwood to Camden and Philadelphia. The 463 runs weekdays only from Sicklerville through Williamstown to Turnersville, Deptford, and Woodbury. Both head northwest toward Turnersville, and Berlin is to the northeast. We do not know of a workable transit route from Williamstown to our door, so most people who come to us from here drive or are driven.
The office is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and clinical staff are on site 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Partial care runs 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and IOP runs 9:30 a.m. to noon. We do not run an evening track. If your job cannot flex around daytime hours, tell us on the first call. It is better to hear that we are the wrong fit in five minutes than to find out after an intake.
Monroe Township’s Admissions: Heroin Down, Methamphetamine Up
New Jersey publishes substance use treatment admissions by the municipality where the person lives. The most recent report from the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the 2025 Substance Use Overview for Gloucester County, covers calendar year 2025 and is dated July 2026.
Monroe Township residents accounted for 352 treatment admissions that year, the second most in Gloucester County after Washington Township’s 391. Washington Township is the larger place, 48,677 residents to Monroe’s 37,117 in the 2020 Census.
| Primary drug | Monroe Twp. | Share of Monroe | Share countywide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol | 140 | 40% | 43% |
| Heroin | 75 | 21% | 22% |
| Methamphetamine | 35 | 10% | 5% |
| Other opiates | 35 | 10% | 9% |
| Cocaine or crack | 34 | 10% | 13% |
| Other or unknown | 18 | 5% | 4% |
| Marijuana | 15 | 4% | 4% |
Admissions are not people. Someone admitted twice in a year is counted twice. The report also counts only people who reached a licensed program that reports to the state, so it shows who got to treatment, not how many people in the township drink or use.
Alcohol, heroin, and the other opiates sit close to the county figures. Methamphetamine does not. Monroe Township’s 35 methamphetamine admissions were the most of any municipality in Gloucester County, with Washington Township next at 21. Monroe accounts for about 10 percent of the county’s admissions overall and about 20 percent of its methamphetamine admissions.
The state’s earlier reports show how the township got here. Methamphetamine admissions rose for two years and dipped slightly in 2025, while heroin admissions fell by more than half.
| Year | Methamphetamine | Heroin | All admissions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20 | 171 | 413 |
| 2023 | 27 | 117 | 356 |
| 2024 | 38 | 72 | 361 |
| 2025 | 35 | 75 | 352 |
The figures for 2022 to 2024 are from the state’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 Gloucester County overviews. Four years is a short run, and the same limits on admissions data apply. But methamphetamine admissions are up by about three quarters since 2022, while heroin admissions fell by more than half.
What the Shift Toward Methamphetamine Changes
Most of what people know about addiction treatment came out of the opioid years: buprenorphine, methadone, naloxone. None of the three treats methamphetamine use, and methamphetamine is the line in Monroe Township’s table that has grown the most since 2022.
There is no FDA-approved medication for stimulant use disorder. Treatment is behavioral. What we provide is cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, individual therapy, and structure held over enough weeks for sleep, mood, and thinking to settle. Contingency management, a structured incentive program, has the strongest research base for stimulant use and is delivered in specialized programs. We do not run one, and you should know that before you choose us.
Methamphetamine withdrawal is rarely medically dangerous in the way alcohol or benzodiazepine withdrawal is, but the depression that follows can be severe. Thoughts of suicide during it are a reason to call or text 988, or 911 if you have already hurt yourself or taken something. Our post on meth withdrawal covers the timeline.
None of this displaces alcohol, which is still the largest line in the table at 40 percent. If you drink heavily every day or take benzodiazepines daily, do not stop abruptly on your own. Withdrawal from either can cause seizures and can be fatal without medical management. That calls for medically supervised withdrawal first, which we do not provide. We help arrange it and take you into outpatient care when you come out.
Partial Care, Intensive Outpatient, or Outpatient
The three levels differ in hours, not in seriousness.
Partial care runs Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It fits someone stepping down from detox or a residential stay, or someone who needs clinical contact to be the default setting for a while.
Intensive outpatient runs 9:30 a.m. to noon, five days a week to start and three as you step down. It is the most common starting point for people who are medically stable and have a safe place to sleep.
Outpatient is one or two sessions a week, and it is where most of the long work happens.
In partial care and intensive outpatient you see your individual therapist at least once a week alongside group therapy. Where medication is appropriate, medication assisted treatment is part of the plan. If a psychiatric diagnosis sits alongside the substance use, that is dual diagnosis work, and we run groups specifically for it.
Help in Monroe Township and Gloucester County
If someone may have overdosed. Call 911 first. Then give naloxone if you have it, and if there is no response within 2 to 3 minutes give another dose in the other nostril and keep going until help arrives. Stay with them. Naloxone reverses opioids only, and New Jersey’s supply increasingly contains xylazine and medetomidine, which it does not reverse, so give it anyway and keep waiting for the ambulance even if the person stays sleepy. The same applies to anyone unresponsive or not breathing normally. What is sold as a stimulant is not reliably only a stimulant, and fentanyl turns up in it, so this applies whatever the person thinks they took. For thoughts of suicide, call or text 988, or 911 if someone is in immediate danger or has already been hurt or taken something. The closest hospital emergency department to Williamstown is Jefferson Washington Township Hospital, at 435 Hurffville-Cross Keys Road in Turnersville, about six miles away and open 24 hours. It is not affiliated with us. Our phone is an admissions line staffed on weekdays. It is not a crisis line.
Naloxone, before you need it. Pharmacies in New Jersey dispense it without a prescription, and the state’s Naloxone365 program lets anyone 14 or older pick it up free and anonymously at a participating pharmacy. If someone in your house uses opioids, or uses anything bought on the street, keep it where another person can find it, not where only that person can.
Your county is Gloucester, not Camden. Our office sits in Camden County, but Camden County programs do not cover Monroe Township. Project SAVE works through Camden County municipal courts, not Monroe Township’s, and the Camden County Office of Mental Health and Substance Use serves Camden County residents. Williamstown residents are served by the Gloucester County Division of Addiction Services, which coordinates prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support for county residents. Many of its services have income guidelines. The county lists its Drug and Alcohol Director at (856) 384-6929.
In the township. Monroe Township has a Mayor’s Committee on Addiction Awareness. The township has used part of its opioid settlement money for the committee’s community meetings and an annual Healing and Unity Memorial Vigil, and its Moving for Mental Health Walk for Wellness in May 2026 brought counseling practices, recovery programs, and county and state agencies to Owen’s Park in Williamstown. It is an awareness effort, not a treatment program, but its events are one place to meet local services in person.
If the problem started with a court date. We do accept court-mandated clients, and our case management team handles the documentation a court asks for.
Finding other options. New Jersey’s addiction helpline, ReachNJ, is at 1-844-732-2465. The SAMHSA National Helpline is 1-800-662-4357.
Starting
Call (856) 788-6914 or send a message. A clinician goes through your substance use history, your mental health history, your medical situation, and what your week looks like. Say that you are coming from Williamstown and ask outright whether the schedule works with the transportation you actually have. We verify your insurance and tell you what your plan will and will not cover before you commit to a start date. The admissions page lays out the whole process if you would rather read it first.
If the assessment says you need a level of care we do not provide, or a closer program is the better answer, we will tell you that and help you get there.
Questions people from Williamstown ask us
How far is South Jersey Recovery Program from Williamstown?
About nine miles. Our office is at 1044 NJ-73 in Berlin. From the center of Williamstown the usual route is Sicklerville Road (County Route 536 Spur) north through Sicklerville, where it becomes Williamstown-New Freedom Road and then Taunton Road, to Route 73 in Berlin. Plan on roughly 15 to 20 minutes outside rush hour.
Is Williamstown its own town?
No. Williamstown is an unincorporated community inside Monroe Township, in Gloucester County. The township is the government. Your municipal court, your police department, and the town your treatment data is counted under all go by Monroe Township, not by the Williamstown mailing address.
Is there a bus from Williamstown to your office?
Not a practical one. NJ Transit's 400 and 463 buses both stop in Williamstown, but neither runs to Berlin or Route 73. The 400 heads toward Camden and Philadelphia, and the 463 runs weekdays to Turnersville, Deptford, and Woodbury. Most clients from Williamstown drive or get a ride.
Do you treat methamphetamine use?
Yes, on an outpatient basis. There is no FDA-approved medication for stimulant use disorder, so treatment is behavioral: cognitive behavioral therapy, group work, and individual therapy. We do not run a contingency management program.
Do you provide detox or residential treatment?
No. We are an outpatient provider. If you need medically supervised withdrawal or a residential stay first, we help arrange it with a provider that offers it, and we can take you into outpatient care afterward.
Insurance
We work with many major insurance plans
What your plan covers depends on your policy and on whether we are in network with it, and we check both before you start. These are some of the plans our clients use. A logo here does not mean we are in network with every product a carrier sells. Whether or not you see your plan, request a verification and we will confirm your benefits and your network status before you start.
Recovery is waiting for you
Talk with our admissions team. Calls are confidential, and we will check your insurance benefits and call you back with what we find.