MOREHEAD, Ky. — State leaders and medical professionals came together to recognize a new collaboration between one of the largest employers for central Kentucky and other addiction recovery facilities.
Mountain Comprehensive Care Center and St. Claire HealthCare were among those Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., called "game-changers" for addiction recovery at their regional exposition.
"Support specialists truly live out their faith every day," Beshear said. "These are folks that have been through addiction; once they get through it, they could go on and do anything else. Yet they're willing to walk back into their trauma, into their toughest days, to show other people that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, that there is a better tomorrow."
The addiction recovery programs announced they now be working together to incorporate quality addiction recovery services to central and eastern Kentucky. Dozens of recovery and domestic support groups connected to these hospitals and programs have shown people like Kylar Poole that there are many resources available for help.
Poole, who is from Louisville, is interning for Addiction Recovery Care as a peer-support specialist near Flemingsburg. Having gone through recovery himself, he said he hopes to provide support for other young individuals, which has been a positive experience.
"Addictions are not curable, [but] it's treatable," he said. "We have to keep those same resources around us to help not to go back to our own ways."
Beshear touted the area’s second-chance employment resources and access to housing and beds at treatment centers.