Addiction Treatment Near Stevenson, AL

How Treatment Works

Restoration Recovery provides outpatient addiction treatment — no residential stay, no detox facility. You visit our Chattanooga clinic for appointments and go home the same day. Treatment is built around your schedule, not the other way around.

Your first visit typically takes 60 to 120 minutes and follows a four-step flow: intake (DSM-5 assessment + COWS score for opioid use disorder), counseling, a doctor evaluation, and — if clinically appropriate — a same-day Suboxone prescription (Sublocade and Brixadi injections are ordered per-patient and administered at a follow-up visit). Follow-up visits are shorter and can often be done via telehealth from home.

What We Treat

We provide evidence-based treatment for addiction to opioids and opioid-like substances including heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin, Norco), morphine, codeine, tramadol, and prescription painkillers.

We also treat alcohol use disorder, stimulant dependence (cocaine, methamphetamine, Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse), benzodiazepine dependence (Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, Valium), cannabis use disorder, and co-occurring mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, and trauma.

Kratom & 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) Addiction

Kratom and its concentrated derivative 7-OH are increasingly available in gas stations and smoke shops across north Alabama and can cause opioid-like physical dependence with severe withdrawal symptoms. Our providers have experience treating kratom and 7-OH dependence with MAT and clinical support tailored to its distinct withdrawal profile. If you are struggling with kratom or 7-OH products, we can help.

Medications We Prescribe

• Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) — daily film or tablet for opioid use disorder. Reduces cravings and prevents withdrawal so you can function normally.
• Sublocade (extended-release buprenorphine) — once-monthly injection for patients who prefer not to take daily medication. Well-suited to patients driving in from Alabama who want to minimize trips.
• Brixadi (extended-release buprenorphine) — weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly injection for opioid use disorder. Flexible dosing intervals for patients who want a shorter cadence than monthly, or who are still titrating to a maintenance dose.
• Vivitrol (naltrexone) — once-monthly injection for alcohol use disorder. Blocks the reward pathway that drives compulsive drinking.

Insurance & Cost (Alabama residents)

For Alabama residents reaching our Tennessee clinic, the working options are: most commercial plans (BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, Cigna, Aetna, Ambetter, United Healthcare, and most employer plans that follow you across state lines), Medicare for patients 65 and older, and self-pay. Alabama Medicaid typically does not cover services at our clinic (see the FAQ and the "Why Stevenson residents come to us" section below for detail). Verify your coverage or call 423-498-2000 before your first visit — we will tell you specifically what your plan covers.

Why Choose Restoration Recovery

• CARF accredited (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities)
• Licensed in Tennessee and Georgia
• HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 compliant — your treatment is confidential
• MAT-certified providers
• Four clinic locations with same-week appointments
• Telehealth available for follow-up care from home — particularly valuable for Alabama patients driving in
• Integrated hepatitis C treatment for enrolled patients

What we see most often from Jackson County, AL patients

The already-commuting-to-Chattanooga crowd

Stevenson's economic center of gravity tips north. The city sits inside the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton Combined Statistical Area, which is a bureaucratic way of saying that a sizable number of working-age Jackson County residents cross the state line for work every day. The Volkswagen plant, the Amazon fulfillment sites, the hospital systems, the trades and construction economy along I-75 and I-24, and the TVA and utility work that spans both sides of the river — those jobs draw workers out of Stevenson, Bridgeport, and South Pittsburg in both directions. If you are already driving US-72 east five days a week, our clinic is on your way home, not a detour. A standing 4 pm Tuesday slot after a day shift, or a 9 am before a swing shift, works cleanly for the commuter patient.

The railroad-town legacy and an aging workforce

Stevenson's economy was built on the rail junction — the town was the convergence point for the Memphis & Charleston and Nashville & Chattanooga lines before the Civil War and spent a hundred years as a division point for freight crews. Some of that labor heritage is still visible in the workforce: railroad retirees, the successor industries along the river, the freight warehouses, the trades. A lot of older workers in this community had legitimate prescriptions for oxycodone or hydrocodone after an injury on the job or a surgery, and ended up physically dependent when the script ran out. The clinical picture is almost always simpler than the story. Buprenorphine at the right dose handles the withdrawal and the craving and lets the pain conversation resume with the original provider — who in many cases is relieved to have the controlled-substance piece handled by a specialty clinic.

The Alabama-Medicaid problem (and the practical workaround)

This is the one that keeps most Stevenson residents from reaching MAT sooner, so we want to say it plainly: Alabama Medicaid will not usually cover services at our clinic. Alabama Medicaid covers out-of-state services only in emergencies, or when a provider within 30 miles of the Alabama border is separately enrolled with Alabama Medicaid and the referring provider files an Out-of-State Service Request. We are not enrolled with Alabama Medicaid. So if Alabama Medicaid is your only coverage, we will be upfront with you: the path forward with us is either self-pay or waiting until a covered option opens up on the Alabama side. We can help you think that through on a first call. On the other hand: if you have a commercial plan (BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, Cigna, Aetna, Ambetter, United Healthcare, an employer plan from a Chattanooga-area job, Medicare for age-65+, or any major commercial insurer), those typically follow you across state lines and cover care here the same way they cover care at any in-network provider. Most Jackson County, AL patients we see are on commercial plans tied to an employer on the Tennessee side, or are paying cash for a manageable flat rate until something else opens up.

The TennCare-equivalent confusion

We want to head off a common mix-up: TennCare is Tennessee's Medicaid program, and Alabama Medicaid is a separate state program with separate MCOs, separate benefits, and a separate provider network. The two do not share enrollment. Restoration Recovery accepts TennCare (and participates with BlueCare, Amerigroup Wellpoint, UHC Community Plan on the Tennessee side), but a Stevenson resident whose only insurance is Alabama Medicaid is not a TennCare member and cannot bill through us as one. Some patients assume all state Medicaid programs work everywhere; they do not. This is a big reason Alabama residents who want MAT across the line end up on self-pay or commercial plans — the bureaucratic bridge between Alabama Medicaid and a Tennessee provider simply is not there.

The small-town privacy concern

Stevenson is tight-knit. About 1,900 people live inside city limits. A common reason our Jackson County patients give for waiting too long to start treatment is that they did not want to run into a neighbor in a waiting room — or risk having word travel back to church, family, or a former employer. Our Chattanooga clinic sits 45 minutes across the state line and over a mountain range. Your entire chart is covered by HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, the strictest federal privacy standard for substance use treatment; nothing in your record can be released to an employer, a family member, or another provider without your written consent. And crucially: the geographic separation itself does work. The person you sit behind at church is not in our waiting room.

The rural-access pattern: Sublocade, Brixadi, and telehealth

Almost everyone who drives 45 minutes to a weekly or twice-weekly Suboxone appointment eventually asks whether there is a way to come less often. The answer is yes — for most patients on stable doses, a Sublocade or Brixadi monthly injection replaces the daily film entirely, dropping the in-person cadence to roughly once a month for the injection plus short telehealth check-ins in between. For Stevenson patients, this is the difference between a 90-mile round trip every week and a 90-mile round trip every four weeks. Several of our Jackson County patients have moved to this pattern after the first 60 to 90 days of stabilization and have not missed a dose since.

The Narcan-save patient

Jackson County, AL is one of the priority counties in Alabama's rural Project FREEDOM initiative, which has put more naloxone into the hands of local EMS and first responders across northeast Alabama. A growing share of our referrals over the past 18 months comes from patients who were revived at home or in a public place and were handed a Narcan refill plus a list of local treatment options on the way out of the ER. The 24 hours after a reversal are the most important window we work with — the person is awake, physically safe, and usually terrified enough to want a different outcome. A first visit with us does not wait for a "rock bottom" or a period of abstinence. If that happened to you or someone in your home in the last year, call us and we will work to fit you in that week.