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Resources available to help in recovery from opioid addiction

They say you have to do is call to make an appointment, or walk right in the door.

While a Gray doctor accused of illegally prescribing opioid and other drugs remains in jail, his case has many people asking how Thomas Sachy's patients and other people with addiction problems can get help.

According to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention, three out of every five drug overdoses nationwide, involve opioids.

Law enforcement has directed Sachy's patients to several local rehabilitation centers that help people suffering from painkiller addiction or other substance abuse.

Health Qwest Clinical Director Amber Foster says the clinic helps people recovering from substance abuse.

"Certainly if they've been abusing it, then this is where they need to come," said Foster.

To be eligible, you must be 18 years or older and abused a substance for at least a year.

They say all you have to do is call to make an appointment or walk right in the door.

Treatment costs $12 a day out of pocket, including medication to slowly get used to not having opioids in your system.

"It's like insulin -- it helps them with their diabetes, whereas this medication is going to help them with the addiction and the dependence upon the opioids," says Foster.

She says the medication is given daily to patients in the center. In time, they are allowed to take the medication home in a secure bag and with secure medicine capsules.

"The bottles have like a built in seal to make sure those haven't been opened or things like that. It's to prevent patients from either selling their medication or overtaking it," says Foster.

Foster says the long-term treatment comes from the counseling, "I think of the medication as the band-aid and the counseling but in combination that's what we see has worked the best long term."

She says each patient takes their own amount of time recovering, "It's not an easy fix, it's not an overnight thing, it's not an in-and-out program. We like to recommend that patients be in treatment for at least half the time that they've been using, because your body needs to adjust to the new medication and we have to slowly taper you off of it.

Foster says the journey may be long, but she sees positive results.

List for Rehabilitation Centers:

Hemlock Pain Center - Milledgeville

750 Cobb Street

Suite 150

Milledgeville, GA 31061

(478)284-0670

M-Th 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Friday 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

(potentially open every other Thursday)

Hemlock Pain Center - Warner Robins

504 Osigian Blvd.

Warner Robins, GA 31088

(478) 333-6444

M-Th 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Friday 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Hemlock Pain Center - Macon

101 Preston Court

Macon, GA 31210

(478) 745-2385

M-Th 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Friday 8:00 a.m. - l2:00 p.m.

Pain Institute of Georgia

3356 Vineville Ave.

Macon, GA 3l204

(478) 476-9247

M-Th 8:00 a.m, - 5:00 p.m.

Friday 9:00 a.m. - l:00 p.m.

HealthQwest Frontiers, Inc - Macon

890 Northwoods Plaza

Macon, GA 31204

(478) 330,7164

M-F 5:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Saturday 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

24 hour crisis # 478.538.27B0

HealthQwest - Warner Robins

607 A Russell Parkway

Warner Robins, GA 31088

(478)225-9e860

M-F 5:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Saturday 7:30 a.m. - 9:30a.m.

24 hour crisìs # 478.361.6411

Georgia Treatment Services, LLC

6132 Hawkinsville Rd

Macon, Ga 31216

(478) 788-0066

M-F 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.,

Saturday 6:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

24 hour crisis # 918.607.3473

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