Near Athens, TN · McMinn County · 37303

Addiction Treatment Near Athens, TN

Restoration Recovery's Cleveland clinic is about a 30-minute drive south of Athens on I-75. Outpatient Suboxone, long-acting injections, counseling, and same-week appointments for McMinn County.

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Same-day appointments available · TennCare, BlueCare, BCBS, UHC, and most commercial insurance accepted.

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Restoration Recovery Cleveland clinic near Athens, TN

Nearest clinicCleveland · ~30 min south on I-75

CARF Accredited Accepting New Patients Same-Week Appointments Most Insurance Accepted Telehealth Available

Outpatient treatment for McMinn County

What we offer Athens patients

Restoration Recovery is an outpatient program — no residential stay, no detox facility. You visit our Cleveland clinic, about 30 minutes south on I-75, and go home the same day. Your first visit takes about 2 to 3 hours: a DSM-5 assessment (plus a COWS score for opioid use disorder), counseling, a doctor evaluation, and a same-day Suboxone prescription. Sublocade and Brixadi injections are ordered at the first visit and given at a short follow-up. If you are on an injection, you come in for each one; everything else can move to telehealth.

Medication options

Which medication fits depends on your history, your other medications, and whether daily dosing or a monthly injection suits your schedule — your provider walks through the choice with you at the first visit.

Opioid use disorderBuprenorphine, three ways

SuboxoneDaily film / tablet

Buprenorphine/naloxone — reduces cravings and prevents withdrawal so you can function normally. Our most-prescribed option.

SublocadeMonthly injection

Extended-release buprenorphine for patients who would rather not take a daily medication.

BrixadiWeekly / monthly

Extended-release buprenorphine with flexible dosing intervals — weekly or monthly.

Alcohol use disorderInjection or daily oral

VivitrolMonthly injection

Naltrexone — blocks the reward pathway behind compulsive drinking.

Oral medicationsDaily tablet

Acamprosate, naltrexone, and disulfiram — daily alternatives to the monthly Vivitrol injection.

Insurance & cost

We accept TennCare (including BlueCare and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, the two dominant McMinn County MCOs), Medicaid, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Cigna, Aetna, Ambetter, and United Healthcare — plus the employer coverage at Mayfield Dairy, Tennessee Wesleyan University, and Starr Regional. Most patients pay little to nothing out of pocket. If you are uninsured, self-pay is a flat $250 per month.

Same-week appointments

Most McMinn County patients are seen within the same week — you leave the first visit with a Suboxone prescription.

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What we treat

Evidence-based treatment for opioids and opioid-like substances — heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin, Norco), morphine, codeine, tramadol, and prescription painkillers — plus alcohol use disorder, stimulant dependence (cocaine, methamphetamine, Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse), benzodiazepine dependence (Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, Valium), cannabis use disorder, and co-occurring anxiety, depression, and trauma. Kratom and its concentrated derivative 7-OH — increasingly sold in Athens-area smoke shops along Highway 11 and Congress Parkway — can cause opioid-like dependence, and our providers treat it with MAT tailored to its distinct withdrawal profile. Our Chattanooga clinic treats anxiety, depression, and trauma with or without addiction treatment. The first visit for that care is in person there; after that, visits can be by telehealth.

Why Restoration Recovery

CARF-accredited (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) and licensed in Tennessee & Georgia.
Experienced MAT providers, with same-week — often same-day — appointments.
HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 compliant, so your treatment stays confidential.
Four clinic locations, with telehealth follow-ups and integrated hepatitis C care.

Named one of the Best Suboxone Treatment Centers in Chattanooga (2023) by Addiction Group.

Tennessee drug overdose deaths

Statewide annual totals, 2021 – 2023

3,8142021

3,8262022

3,6162023↓ 5.5% vs 2022

Source: Tennessee Department of Health, 2023 Drug Overdose Death Report. First statewide decline since surveillance began in 2013.

Why these numbers matter in McMinn County

Recovery from the McMinn County seat

The patients we see most from the 37303 ZIP are not the stereotype people picture — they are production workers at Mayfield Dairy, line workers at the auto-parts plants around the industrial park, truck drivers on I-75, and staff at Starr Regional and Tennessee Wesleyan. A lot started on a legitimate prescription after an injury or a surgery. Outpatient Suboxone or a long-acting injection at the right dose lets you keep your job, keep your house, and stop spending your day finding the next dose.

McMinn is one of eleven counties in the Tennessee Department of Health's Southeast High Impact Area, and a pilot county for the HIA RISE navigation program — so connecting a local patient to an MAT clinic like ours is an established referral pathway. We do not require any period of abstinence before you come in.

Fentanyl's share of TN overdose deaths

% of overdose deaths involving fentanyl

73%2021

76%2022

77%2023Dominant driver

Source: Tennessee Department of Health. In 2023, 77% of overdose deaths involved fentanyl or another synthetic opioid.

What we offer

Services available near Athens

All available at our Cleveland clinic, about 30 minutes south. Follow-up care can be done by telehealth.

Medication-assisted treatment

Suboxone & MAT

Daily Suboxone plus long-acting Sublocade and Brixadi injections for opioid use disorder, and Vivitrol for alcohol use disorder.

Counseling

Individual therapy and evidence-based counseling alongside your medication.

Telehealth Follow-Ups

After your first visit, most follow-ups — medication management, counseling, refills — run securely from home.

Hepatitis C Treatment

Integrated hepatitis C testing and treatment for patients enrolled in our MAT program.

Why Athens residents come to us

What we see most often from McMinn County patients

The industrial-heritage shift worker

Athens has always been a working town — Mayfield Dairy bottling since 1910, the Calhoun paper mill, an east-side industrial park that runs around the clock. A residential stay has never been realistic when your overtime pays the mortgage. You come in for a 2-to-3-hour first visit, walk out with a prescription the same day, and follow-up visits usually run 30–45 minutes, weekly at first, then every two weeks, then monthly as you stabilize.

The post-injury pain patient

A lot of patients in their 40s, 50s, and 60s had a legitimate prescription for oxycodone, hydrocodone, or Percocet after a surgery or an on-the-job injury. When the prescription ended, the dependence did not. Buprenorphine at the right dose takes care of the withdrawal and lets the underlying pain conversation resume with your original provider.

The quiet small-town privacy concern

Athens is small and tight-knit. Our Cleveland clinic is thirty minutes down I-75 in a different county — close enough to be convenient, far enough that the odds of running into someone you know are essentially zero. Your chart is covered by HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2.

Getting to the clinic from Athens

Our Cleveland clinic sits on Chambliss Avenue NW, a mile off I-75 Exit 27 (APD 40 / Paul Huff Parkway). From most of Athens it is Ingleside Avenue or Decatur Pike to I-75 South, then about 20 minutes down the interstate — 28 to 32 minutes door-to-door, closer to 20 to 25 from the south side near Calhoun. Open directions in Google Maps → Your first visit is in person; most follow-ups move to telehealth.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

How far is your Cleveland clinic from Athens?+

About 30 minutes south via I-75 in light traffic. From the south side of Athens (Calhoun / Riceville) it is closer to 20 to 25 minutes; from north McMinn County, 35 to 45.

Is there a Suboxone option closer to Athens than Cleveland?+

Our Cleveland clinic is the closest of our four locations to Athens, about 30 minutes south on I-75. If you live in north McMinn County (Niota, Riceville, or the Monroe County line), it is still shorter than almost any other full-service MAT program once you account for wait times and same-week scheduling.

Do I really have to drive to Cleveland for every appointment?+

No. Only the first appointment and the long-acting injection visits (Sublocade and Vivitrol every four weeks, Brixadi weekly or monthly) have to happen in person. Everything else — medication-management follow-ups, counseling, refills — can run over secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth unless your provider asks to see you in person.

How quickly can I start treatment?+

Most McMinn County patients are seen within the same week. Call 423-498-2000 or request an appointment online. You leave your first visit with a Suboxone prescription, and your provider explains when to take the first dose at home.

Do I need to stop using opioids before my first appointment?+

You do not need to be completely off opioids first. In most cases you should be in early withdrawal (usually 12 to 24 hours since last use of short-acting opioids, longer for long-acting opioids) before your first dose — you take that dose at home, and at your first visit your provider explains when to take it and exactly what to expect.

I have a Narcan reversal on my record — will that affect my care?+

No. A prior overdose reversal is not a disqualifier, a red flag, or something your insurance will hold against you for MAT coverage — it is one of the clearest clinical reasons to start Suboxone or a long-acting buprenorphine injection. Your records are protected by HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, so nothing is shared with an employer, family member, or outside provider without your written consent, except in limited cases the law allows, such as a medical emergency or a court order.

What insurance do you accept?+

TennCare (including BlueCare and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan), Medicaid, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Cigna, Aetna, Ambetter, United Healthcare, and most major commercial plans. Uninsured self-pay is a flat $250 per month. Check your coverage here.

Will my treatment be confidential?+

Yes. All treatment is protected by HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 — the strictest federal privacy standard for substance use treatment. Records cannot be shared without your written consent (except in limited cases the law allows, such as a medical emergency or a court order), and the clinic in a different county adds a practical layer of distance.

Our clinics

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