Clarksville, Indiana, is getting a new addiction recovery facility.It will offer patients a holistic recovery program, with treatment for the mind, body and soul.”Everything that we do is client-centered,” said Catherine Stone-Hahn, clinical director of Avenues Recovery Center of Louisville. “We believe in treating the entire person. Through mindfulness, art therapy, yoga, we can offer wrap-around treatment for our clients that is unlike any other facility I’ve worked at.”The facility is an 80,000-square-foot building just off Lewis and Clark Parkway. It offers housing for 91 patients. Amenities include a game room, gym equipment, a yoga studio, lounges, and basketball and volleyball courts. Avenues Recovery Center is a national facility, with 10 other centers across the country, including one in Fort Wayne, Indiana.CEO of Avenues Hudi Alter said it was noticed that many patients were coming to the Fort Wayne center from Southern Indiana and Kentucky, so they decided to open another facility to help feel the need.”A big part of our program is community-based treatment, which means that maybe you’re a little away from home, but your family can still come in for sessions once a week,” Alter said. “You can have a sponsor, and join community meetings somewhere in your comfort zone.”Catherine Stone-Hahn said the need for addiction recovery in the Kentuckiana area is high.”We are a 91-bed facility and we could fill it for a year, and cure every single person in it to where they never used again, and our beds would stay full for 10 years,” she said. “That’s how great the need is, that’s how devastating the drug epidemic is in this area.”According to the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and Office of Drug Control Policy, the 2020 Overdose Fatality Report indicated that more than 1,964 Kentuckians died from drug overdoses in 2020, a 49% increase in drug overdose deaths compared to 2019.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kentucky had the fourth most overdose deaths in the nation from April 2020 to April 2021.Indiana ranks 13th nationally in overdose death rate, at 36 deaths per 100,000.Scott County ranks as the worst county in Indiana for deaths by drug overdose, according to the Indiana State Government’s official website.For more information on the center, visit avenuesrecovery.com.
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. —
Clarksville, Indiana, is getting a new addiction recovery facility.
It will offer patients a holistic recovery program, with treatment for the mind, body and soul.
“Everything that we do is client-centered,” said Catherine Stone-Hahn, clinical director of Avenues Recovery Center of Louisville. “We believe in treating the entire person. Through mindfulness, art therapy, yoga, we can offer wrap-around treatment for our clients that is unlike any other facility I’ve worked at.”
The facility is an 80,000-square-foot building just off Lewis and Clark Parkway. It offers housing for 91 patients. Amenities include a game room, gym equipment, a yoga studio, lounges, and basketball and volleyball courts.
Avenues Recovery Center is a national facility, with 10 other centers across the country, including one in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
CEO of Avenues Hudi Alter said it was noticed that many patients were coming to the Fort Wayne center from Southern Indiana and Kentucky, so they decided to open another facility to help feel the need.
“A big part of our program is community-based treatment, which means that maybe you’re a little away from home, but your family can still come in for sessions once a week,” Alter said. “You can have a sponsor, and join community meetings somewhere in your comfort zone.”
Catherine Stone-Hahn said the need for addiction recovery in the Kentuckiana area is high.
“We are a 91-bed facility and we could fill it for a year, and cure every single person in it to where they never used again, and our beds would stay full for 10 years,” she said. “That’s how great the need is, that’s how devastating the drug epidemic is in this area.”
According to the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and Office of Drug Control Policy, the 2020 Overdose Fatality Report indicated that more than 1,964 Kentuckians died from drug overdoses in 2020, a 49% increase in drug overdose deaths compared to 2019.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kentucky had the fourth most overdose deaths in the nation from April 2020 to April 2021.
Indiana ranks 13th nationally in overdose death rate, at 36 deaths per 100,000.
Scott County ranks as the worst county in Indiana for deaths by drug overdose, according to the Indiana State Government’s official website.
For more information on the center, visit avenuesrecovery.com.