LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More addiction recovery help is now available in Kentucky. Organizers with the Isaiah House opened a renovated building in the south part of Louisville this week.

What You Need To Know

  • Organizers with the Isaiah House opened a renovated building in the south part of town

  • It's an 11-month progam setup in four phases to help men

  • Isaiah House said the new center offers evidence-based methods of personalized addiction treatment

  • It allows clients to pursue recovery in an all-encompassing, engaging, caring, and spiritual environment

“This room we are in right now, it’s probably one of my favorites. It’s the game room,” said Jacob Rice, an Executive Director at the Oliva Center for Isaiah House.

The game room helps Rice bond with clients in recovery.

“I need it more than anything. It gives us a sense of self, you know, because once you come into treatment, it’s like you lose a certain aspect of yourself when you’re out in the streets,” Rice said. “And then once you remove the alcohol and the drugs from me, you have to rediscover yourself all over again.”

He offers his help to bring people in addiction back to life to become whole again, using his own experience of being in long-term recovery.

“I lost my brother in 2013 to an overdose. And I always drank, but I always had a job and I thought that, oh, this doesn’t apply to me because I had a job and I had a house and I was paying my bills,” Rice explained. “But then, whenever this trauma entered my life, I had no coping skills. I didn’t know how to deal with grief.”

Losing his brother left him feeling depressed and with regret.

“I lost myself in the bottle and then I found myself in the hospital. I found myself with my mom crying over me and asking me to get help,” Rice said.

With his mom’s help, he turned his life around at one of the Isaiah House recovery centers.

“Isaiah House, we offer hope for a broken road. There are just so many stories, like, I’m just one story. We’ve been open for 23 years and we have changed so many lives,” Rice said.

So now he’s helping in the newest facility, the Oliva Center, an 11-month program for men established in four phases.

“You’re not alone, and you don’t have to go through this alone. My hope is that we can all come together and serve one big purpose, and that’s to help other people recover from substance abuse disorder and alcoholism,” Rice said.

Isaiah House said the new center offers evidence-based methods of personalized addiction treatment. It allows clients to pursue recovery in an all-encompassing, engaging, caring, and spiritual environment.

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