You don’t have to go far to see how addiction is impacting our communities.
Whether it’s drugs or alcohol, overcoming that struggle is hard, but ask people who have been though it and they will tell you the journey is worth it.
BrightView Health is an outpatient addiction treatment center that helps patients achieve recovery from substance and alcohol use disorders.
Crystal Barajas from BrightView Health said addiction is not a choice but a disease and it does need to be medically treated as such.
BrightView Health is serving a record number of patients recovering from a substance use disorder — more than 5,000 just in Kentucky. Since opening its first Kentucky location in 2020, BrightView has expanded to offer its addiction treatment program to Kentuckians in all regions of the state. With 17 centers, most residents in the Bluegrass state now live within 30 minutes of a BrightView center.
BrightView focuses on helping people through outpatient medication assisted treatment programs, counseling, group therapy, and social support. They offer treatment on demand.
Barajas said someone can come in between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. and can see a medical provider and clinician and get started with treatment on day one.
The good news, according to the Center for Disease Control, Kentucky overdose deaths were down 3% from 2022 to 2023. That is better than the national average of 2.3%. BrightView credits the statistics moving in the right direction thanks to places like theirs and more people having access to naloxone which can treat narcotic overdose in an emergency situation.
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Source: WAVE
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