Spero Health opens addiction recovery clinic in Parkersburg | News, Sports, Jobs

PARKERSBURG — Spero Well being, a nationwide chief in habit restoration, has opened a brand new clinic in Parkersburg, the corporate stated.

The clinic opened on June 30 at 2 Ferguson Drive, the second location Spero Well being has opened in West Virginia, becoming a member of a community of greater than 80 Spero Well being places all through Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana and Virginia and West Virginia.

” This second Spero Well being clinic in West Virginia is just the start of our work within the state as we reside out our mission to save lots of lives, instill hope and restore relationships,” Spero Well being CEO Steve Priest stated.

In keeping with the CDC from September 2020 to September 2021, West Virginia had 1,284 overdose deaths, a slight decline from earlier years.

“Though latest knowledge is encouraging, we will’t lose sight of how pressing the necessity is for our communities to have entry to habit therapy near residence, so we proceed to see declines in these numbers,” Priest stated. “Earlier than COVID-19, the nation was already in crises. When the pandemic hit, our group pals and neighbors struggled with relapse and skilled issues like job loss and social isolation inflicting many to show to substances to ease the ache.”

Artificial opioids together with fentanyl grew to become the commonest medication concerned in drug overdose deaths in the USA, Priest stated. The surge of deaths will solely proceed because of the unfold of the lethal road drug which is reasonable and 50 occasions stronger than heroin, he stated.

“It’s an especially harmful substance and sometimes will get combined in with different medication and customers unknowingly ingest it,” Priest stated. “We’re additionally seeing a resurgent of methamphetamine use complicating the drug epidemic additional, however there’s hope.”

Spero Well being provides a community-based method to therapy by utilizing an revolutionary and evidence-based built-in care mannequin that mixes each bodily and behavioral healthcare providers below one roof.

“Typically occasions individuals don’t know the place to show or are afraid of judgement, and we would like everybody to know that restoration is feasible,” David Hayden, senior vp of scientific providers for Spero Well being, stated. “Spero Well being’s purpose is to have interaction sufferers the place they’re of their journey and personalize this system to fulfill their particular wants to allow them to stabilize, permitting for interventions to help sustained restoration efforts.”

Sufferers have weekly entry to a doctor or nurse practitioner, counseling and restoration help providers to assist hyperlink them again to the group to deal with different points akin to housing, meals insecurity and employment, he stated.

Spero Well being is an built-in healthcare providers group specializing in native and inexpensive outpatient care for people affected by substance use problems. The corporate relies in Nashville, Tenn. and privately held by Heritage Group, Well being Velocity Capital, South Central and Frist Cressey Ventures.

The corporate operates greater than 80 outpatient clinics.

Speedy appointments can be found and people who want habit therapy providers are inspired to name 866-755-4258 for extra info.