Shoemaker Center
Treatment center
At a glance
- Address
- 7295 Buttercup Road, Sykesville, MD 21784
- Levels of care
- Inpatient ResidentialDetoxTelemedicine
- Ages served
- Young Adults (Ages 18-25)Adults (Ages 26-64)Seniors (Ages 65+)
- Languages
- Spanish
- Accreditation

Detox and medication
Detox
- Offered: Opioids
- Offered: Alcohol
- Offered: Benzodiazepines
- Offered: Methamphetamines
- Offered: Cocaine
Medication assisted treatment
- Offered: Buprenorphine
- Offered: Naltrexone
- Not offered: Methadone
Services and programs
Services
Special programs
Other treatment centers close by
Within about 14 miles of this address, nearest first.
Meetings in Sykesville
Treatment and fellowship meetings do different jobs, and most people end up using both.
Questions people ask about Shoemaker Center
Is Shoemaker Center residential or day treatment?
They are set up for 3 levels: inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Sykesville, 1 offers a bed.
What does Shoemaker Center detox from?
They provide detox for 5 substances: alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids. Whether a bed is free this week is a question for the call, and Sykesville has 8 other centers.
Does Shoemaker Center treat people in Spanish?
Yes. They treat people in Spanish. Confirm it for the first appointment specifically, because in Sykesville that can depend on who is rostered that day.
Is there anything in Sykesville besides paid treatment?
Sykesville has 28 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.
Does Shoemaker Center prescribe buprenorphine or methadone?
They prescribe buprenorphine and naltrexone, which means the medication side is handled here rather than referred out to somewhere else in Sykesville.
Can a program handle a court referral?
Most of the programs listed here take mandated clients. Missing sessions has consequences beyond the clinical ones, which is a real difference in practice. Ask exactly what gets reported, to whom, and how often.
Is a dual diagnosis treated in one place?
A mental health condition alongside substance use is the common case rather than the complicated one. Which came first is usually impossible to untangle and rarely changes what should happen next. Ask what happens if the psychiatric side turns out to need more than the program planned for.
Should family be part of this?
There is normally a family component, and it is one of the better questions to ask when comparing two places. What a center can tell a family member is limited by privacy law, and that limit holds even for a parent of an adult. Ask what exists for the family separately from the person being treated.