Why patients choose us
Why Northwest Georgia Patients Start Treatment at Restoration Recovery
Outpatient medication-assisted treatment is the largest and most-evidence-backed lane of addiction care in the country. For the overwhelming majority of patients with opioid or alcohol use disorder, it's the right place to start — and for most of our patients, it's where treatment ends up, too. Here's what starting at our Ringgold clinic looks like in practice.
Wait list open — same-week intake at our Tennessee clinics
Our Ringgold clinic at 4962 Battlefield Pkwy is preparing to begin scheduling. Call 423-498-2000 to be added to the wait list and we'll route your first visit to the Tennessee clinic that fits your schedule and route. Most Northwest Georgia patients start at our Chattanooga flagship 20 minutes north via I-75, which runs Monday through Friday with same-week appointments and the full MAT formulary including Sublocade and Brixadi injections. Your first visit is a 60-to-120-minute evaluation with intake, counseling, and a doctor — and if clinically appropriate, a same-day Suboxone prescription. Once Ringgold opens, in-state Georgia patients can transition over without restarting paperwork.
Keep your job, your family, your home
Northwest Georgia is a working region — carpet mills in Dalton, manufacturing in Rossville and Fort Oglethorpe, logistics and distribution up and down the I-75 corridor, and a substantial agricultural workforce spread across Catoosa, Walker, and Whitfield Counties. Outpatient MAT is built around the life you already have, not the life you'd need to pause to get care. You come in for a first visit (one half-day), leave with a prescription, and follow-ups are 15 to 30 minutes each. Most patients never miss more than a few hours of work, and most follow-ups can be done by telehealth between in-person visits.
Evidence-based medications for opioid and alcohol use disorder
Once Ringgold begins scheduling, the clinic is built to prescribe and administer all five FDA-approved MAT medications: Suboxone (daily film or tablet), Sublocade (monthly injection), Brixadi (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly injection), Vivitrol (monthly injection for alcohol use disorder), and Acamprosate (daily oral for alcohol abstinence). Until Ringgold opens, Northwest Georgia patients on the wait list receive these medications at our three active Tennessee clinics on the same medical record — most patients use our Chattanooga flagship 20 minutes north via I-75. Your provider picks the medication that fits your clinical picture and your life — not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Counseling, peer support, and more intensive care when needed
Every Ringgold treatment plan includes access to individual counseling and certified peer support specialists. When a patient's clinical picture calls for structured intensive outpatient programming or integrated behavioral health and psychiatric care for co-occurring anxiety, depression, or trauma, those services are offered at our Chattanooga clinic 20 minutes north via I-75 — and can be coordinated alongside ongoing Friday visits in Ringgold without switching providers or records.
Telehealth follow-ups between Friday visits
After your initial in-person evaluation in Ringgold, many follow-up appointments can be done via secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth from your phone, tablet, or computer. For Ringgold patients this matters more than at most of our clinics: once you're stable on maintenance, the medication management side of recovery can move almost entirely online between Friday in-person visits — one half-day a week becomes one half-day every few months, with the rest handled by telehealth.
Georgia Medicaid and most commercial insurance accepted
We are an in-network Georgia Medicaid provider through the Georgia Families managed care program, plus BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, Aetna, Ambetter, UnitedHealthcare, Tricare, and most major commercial plans. Most patients pay little to nothing out of pocket for MAT. The Georgia Medicaid CMO lineup is in transition in 2026 — verify your coverage before your first visit or call us so we can verify your specific plan. Because Ringgold is our only Georgia clinic, in-state Medicaid coverage here works cleanly for Georgia residents without the out-of-network complications that come with crossing the state line for care.
Four regional clinics — Ringgold is the Georgia door
Ringgold is one of four Restoration Recovery clinics and the only one in Georgia. Our flagship is in Chattanooga, TN at 6141 Shallowford Road, Monday through Friday. Cleveland, TN and Soddy-Daisy, TN add regional coverage on specific weekdays in Tennessee. Same patient, same medical record, same treatment plan across all four doors — call 423-498-2000 and we'll help you pick the clinic that fits your schedule and geography best.
Ready to start? Call 423-498-2000 or request an appointment online — most new Ringgold patients are in the chair within a week or two.