Ideal Option vs Aware Recovery Care
They differ on 5 of 10 things we check. No winner here: the better one is the one that fits what you need and how you'd pay.
Ideal Option
You visit an Ideal Option clinic, usually in person for the first appointment, where an addiction medicine clinician can start buprenorphine or other medication for opioid, alcohol or stimulant use, with counseling and follow-up visits by clinic or video.
Aware Recovery Care
You check your insurance by state, then a team of a clinician, nurse, recovery coach and care coordinator works with you and your family at home over about a year, with medication for addiction where appropriate.
Where they differ
- Good for
- Ideal Option: Adults with opioid use disorder, including fentanyl, who want to start buprenorphine quickly; People with Medicaid or Medicare looking for medication treatment for addiction
- Aware Recovery Care: Adults with alcohol or drug addiction who want treatment at home instead of a facility; People who need more support than weekly outpatient care
- Probably not for
- Ideal Option: Anyone in crisis: call or text 988; for an overdose call 911
- Aware Recovery Care: Anyone in crisis or overdose: call 911, or call or text 988
- Cost
- Ideal Option: Copay with insurance (Medicaid, Medicare, commercial); self-pay price not published
- Aware Recovery Care: Copay with insurance; no self-pay price published
- Privacy
- Ideal Option: Grade B+
- Aware Recovery Care: Grade B
- HIPAA
- Ideal Option: Not stated
- Aware Recovery Care: Yes
The same for both: kind of help (a therapist), how you pay (insurance), where (web), research (early research), sells your data (no).
In crisis or thinking about suicide? In the US, call or text 988. This page is information from our reviews, not medical advice.