Medication-Assisted Treatment · Chattanooga, TN · Updated October 2026

Suboxone Treatment in Chattanooga, TN

FDA-approved Suboxone (buprenorphine) therapy for opioid use disorder at our Chattanooga clinic on Shallowford Road. Same-day appointments, Monday–Friday, prescribed by experienced MAT providers in a CARF-accredited outpatient program — with most insurance accepted. You leave your first visit with a Suboxone prescription.

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Suboxone treatment at our Chattanooga clinic

Restoration Recovery’s Chattanooga clinic is our flagship location, at 6141 Shallowford Road, Suite 100, Chattanooga, TN 37421 — in the Shallowford Road corridor near I-75, in Hamilton County. It is open Monday through Friday and offers the full buprenorphine formulary: daily Suboxone film or tablet, plus the long-acting Sublocade (monthly) and Brixadi (weekly or monthly) injections, on-site Intensive Outpatient Programming (IOP), integrated behavioral health, and Hepatitis C care.

Chattanooga, TN

Mon–Fri · main office

6141 Shallowford Rd, Suite 100, Chattanooga, TN 37421

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The Chattanooga clinic serves patients across Hamilton County and the surrounding communities — Hixson, East Ridge, Red Bank, Ooltewah, Signal Mountain, and Soddy-Daisy. If you are closer to another part of the region, Restoration Recovery also has clinics in Cleveland, TN, Soddy-Daisy, TN, and Ringgold, GA, all reachable at one number: 423-498-2000.

How Suboxone treatment works at our Chattanooga clinic

Suboxone is a film or tablet you dissolve under your tongue once a day. It combines buprenorphine, which eases cravings and withdrawal, with naloxone, which discourages misuse. Suboxone is FDA-approved for opioid use disorder, and our providers also prescribe it off-label for kratom and 7-OH dependence (see kratom and 7-OH treatment in Chattanooga). Our statewide Suboxone treatment guide explains how the medication works in more detail. If you are deciding between a daily dose and an injection, see Sublocade vs. Suboxone; if you are still deciding whether medication is right for you, see Is Suboxone Right for Me?

Every patient on MAT follows the same visit schedule: visits start out weekly, then move to every two weeks, and then to monthly as you stabilize. A routine visit usually takes 30 to 45 minutes, because counseling is part of it. Your first visit is always in person here.

Plan on some time away from work in the first weeks, while visits are weekly. If getting to the clinic every week is hard to fit around your job, you can do those visits by video unless your provider asks to see you. Sublocade and Brixadi patients come to the clinic for each injection.

Available in Chattanooga

The Full Buprenorphine Formulary, One Clinic

Our Chattanooga flagship offers all three buprenorphine medications we prescribe for opioid use disorder. If you choose the long-acting Sublocade or Brixadi injection, you take daily Suboxone first, and the injection is given here once it arrives, so you can switch to a weekly or monthly shot without changing clinics.

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Daily film or tablet

Suboxone

Sublingual buprenorphine/naloxone · taken once daily under the tongue

For most patients starting OUD treatment. You leave your first Chattanooga visit with the prescription, fill it, and take your first dose at home when your provider tells you to.

Monthly injection

Sublocade

300 mg ×2 to start (one month apart), then 100 mg or 300 mg monthly

For patients stable on Suboxone who would rather not take a daily dose. A once-monthly buprenorphine injection given in clinic. We have you take Suboxone for at least a week first, and the first injection usually comes about a month after you start.

Weekly or monthly injection

Brixadi

Weekly 8 / 16 / 24 / 32 mg · monthly 64 / 96 / 128 mg

For patients who want a flexible injection interval. A long-acting buprenorphine injectable given weekly or monthly. You take Suboxone until your injection arrives, then switch.

We don’t stock injections on-site — your provider orders Sublocade or Brixadi during your visit, bridges you on Suboxone, and schedules the injection once the medication arrives. Weighing the daily film against an injection? See our Sublocade vs. Daily Suboxone comparison and the MAT Medications Compared tracker.

Starting Suboxone in Chattanooga — What to Expect

Your first appointment can be as soon as the day you call, Monday through Friday. You leave it with a Suboxone prescription and take your first dose at home. Here is the path from your first call to your second visit.

Call or request a callback

The intake call is short — 5 to 10 minutes covering what you’ve been using and when your last dose was, plus insurance verification and scheduling. There’s no commitment to start treatment, and we book the soonest available appointment at the Chattanooga clinic. Call 423-498-2000 or request a callback.

First appointment

Bring a valid photo ID, your insurance card (if applicable), and a list of any medications you take. The visit runs 2 to 3 hours and follows a four-step intake: a DSM-5 substance use disorder assessment plus a COWS (Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale) score, then counseling intake, then doctor evaluation.

Same-day prescription

You leave the same day with a Suboxone prescription, and your provider explains when to take your first dose. If you prefer a long-acting injection, your provider orders Sublocade or Brixadi at this visit and bridges you on Suboxone in the meantime.

First dose and your next visit

You fill your prescription and take your first dose at home. Your provider tells you when to take it, because buprenorphine taken too soon after other opioids can bring on sudden withdrawal. Visits start out weekly, at the clinic or by video. Anything you share is protected under HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2.

First appointment: about 2–3 hours.Same-day Suboxone prescription at your first visit.Bring a photo ID, your insurance card, and a list of any medications.

In-person vs. telehealth

In-person or telehealth Suboxone in Chattanooga: how to choose

Can you do Suboxone treatment entirely online? Not at first. At our Chattanooga clinic, your first visit is always in person, on Shallowford Road. After that, follow-ups can be by secure-video telehealth unless your provider asks to see you. Even routine drug monitoring is handled remotely: mailed urine screens for weekly telehealth patients, and at-home finger-stick tests for monthly and bi-monthly patients.

Telehealth-only services — the ones offering Suboxone by video across the whole state — can be a reasonable fit for a stable, established patient who never needs to be seen in person. Where they fall short is the moment a local patient actually needs a clinic:

Starting treatment. Your first visit is with a provider in the room, and you leave with a same-day Suboxone prescription. Your provider explains when to take your first dose at home. A video-only service sends a prescription to your pharmacy after a video call.
Fentanyl. If you have been using fentanyl, your provider goes over the timing of your first dose with you in person at the first visit.
Injections. Sublocade and Brixadi injections are given at the clinic; a telehealth-only provider cannot administer them.
Our IOP program. The intensive outpatient program runs in person at the Chattanooga clinic.
A hard week. When recovery gets rocky, some people just want to sit across from their provider. Our clinic on Shallowford Road can do that; a statewide video service cannot.

That is why a local clinic that also offers telehealth tends to serve a Chattanooga patient better than a telehealth-only service: you keep the convenience of video follow-ups and you have a real clinic behind you for the parts of treatment that work better in person. You book one in-person visit this week at 6141 Shallowford Road, leave with a same-day prescription, and can do your follow-ups from home after that. For how the video visits themselves work, see our telehealth treatment page.

Want to do visits from home?

After your first visit, yes. The first visit is always in person. Book it this week, then move your follow-ups to telehealth unless your provider asks to see you. Injections are still given at the clinic. Most major insurance — including TennCare — is accepted.

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The evidence

Why medication-assisted treatment works

Buprenorphine, the main medicine in Suboxone, is endorsed by SAMHSA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), and the World Health Organization as a treatment for opioid use disorder. The three results below come from a review of 19 cohort studies and two clinical trials.

4.6 → 1.4 Overdose deaths / 1,000 / yr

Overdose deaths ran at 1.4 per 1,000 patients per year during buprenorphine treatment, against 4.6 per 1,000 after treatment stopped. Sordo L et al. BMJ. 2017;357:j1550 — from a single buprenorphine cohort in a review of 19 cohort studies.

75% Still in treatment at 1 year

75% of buprenorphine patients remained in treatment a year later, versus 0% on placebo. Kakko J et al. Lancet. 2003;361(9358):662–668 — randomized placebo-controlled trial; both groups received counseling.

49 → 8.6% On medication, then after tapering

360 patients got 12 weeks of Suboxone: 49% succeeded while on it, and eight weeks after tapering off, the success rate was 8.6%. All 360 had first tried a short Suboxone course plus taper, which worked for 6.6% of the 653 enrolled. Weiss RD et al. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(12):1238–1246 — POATS trial, 653 patients, 10 U.S. sites.

What these numbers mean

People did best while they stayed on medication

Overdose deaths were lower while people stayed in buprenorphine treatment than after it stopped. In the Kakko trial, three in four buprenorphine patients were still in treatment a year later. In POATS, 49% of the 360 patients who got 12 weeks of Suboxone succeeded while on it, and 8.6% did eight weeks after tapering off.

Our statewide Suboxone page covers more of the research, including the Cochrane review of buprenorphine trials and a Medicaid study in Health Affairs.

Full citations in References: Sordo 2017 (BMJ), Kakko 2003 (Lancet), Weiss 2011 (Arch Gen Psychiatry, POATS), ASAM 2020.

Why patients choose Restoration Recovery in Chattanooga

Here is what you will find at the Chattanooga clinic:

A real clinic on Shallowford Road. You see a provider in person at 6141 Shallowford Road. Telehealth follow-ups come later, after your first in-person visit.

Same-day appointments. Your first appointment can be as soon as the day you call, Monday through Friday, and our team books the soonest opening.

Doctors and counselors at the same clinic. Your first visit includes a meeting with a counselor and an evaluation with a doctor, and counseling is part of your routine visits after that.

Behavioral health care here too. Our Chattanooga clinic treats anxiety, depression, and trauma, with or without addiction treatment. The first visit for that care is in person here, and later visits can be by telehealth.

Intensive outpatient program. Our IOP runs three days a week, about 2 to 3 hours a session. It starts with a consultation with the counselors, and you set the days and times with them.

NA meetings in the building. The clinic provides space for three community-led NA meetings on Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday evenings.

Confidential by federal law. Your treatment is protected under HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, which shields addiction-treatment records from most forms of disclosure.

“I owe my entire recovery to this place. I had tried so many times in the past, but not until I found these guys did I succeed.”
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CARF-accredited outpatient addiction care

TennCare, BlueCare, Georgia Medicaid, BCBS, UHC, Medicare & most commercial insurance accepted. We verify your benefits before your first visit. Licensed in TN & GA · HIPAA · 42 CFR Part 2.

Cost & insurance for Suboxone in Chattanooga

With TennCare (BlueCare, Wellpoint, or UHC Community Plan), Suboxone treatment at the Chattanooga clinic is typically $0 for covered services. The clinic is enrolled in TennCare’s BESMART program, which removes prior-authorization delays for preferred sublingual buprenorphine, such as Suboxone film or tablet. BCBS, UHC, Aetna, Cigna, and Humana commercial plans are accepted, and so are Medicare and Medicare Advantage. What you pay out of pocket depends on your insurance, so verify your specific plan before your first visit. Without insurance, self-pay for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a flat $250 a month, and the medication is billed separately.

Not sure what your plan covers?

Most major insurance, including TennCare, is accepted here. Send your name and number and our team verifies your benefits and calls you back, usually within one business day. It takes about two minutes, and you don’t need to share any medical details.

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You don’t need all the answers before you call — our team walks you through the process from your first phone call to your first appointment and every visit after. Phones are answered Monday through Friday, 9am to 4:30pm Eastern; after hours, leave a message or use the callback form and we’ll respond the next business day. Need help right now? The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and the free, confidential SAMHSA National Helpline (1-800-662-4357) are available 24/7.

Questions

Chattanooga Suboxone treatment FAQ

Where do you provide Suboxone treatment in Chattanooga?+

Our Chattanooga clinic is at 6141 Shallowford Road, Suite 100, Chattanooga, TN 37421, in Hamilton County near I-75. It is our flagship clinic and is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Eastern Time. Your first visit is in person there, and follow-up visits can be at the clinic or by video. Call 423-498-2000 to set up your first appointment.

How fast can I start Suboxone in Chattanooga?+

Same-day appointments are available at the Chattanooga clinic Monday through Friday, so your first appointment can be as soon as the day you call. You leave that visit with a Suboxone prescription, fill it, and take your first dose at home when your provider tells you to. Visits start out weekly after that.

Do I have to be in withdrawal before my first appointment?+

No. You do not need to be in withdrawal when you arrive. Your first visit includes a COWS score, which measures withdrawal symptoms. You take your first dose later, at home, when your provider tells you to. For more on timing, including after fentanyl, see our statewide Suboxone FAQ.

Will my insurance cover Suboxone in Chattanooga?+

Most major insurance is accepted, including TennCare, Georgia Medicaid, commercial plans, Medicare, and Medicare Advantage. With TennCare (BlueCare, Wellpoint, or UHC Community Plan), treatment is typically $0 for covered services. What you pay out of pocket depends on your insurance. Self-pay for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a flat $250 a month, with the medication billed separately. Verify your specific plan on our insurance page.

How often will I come to the Chattanooga clinic?+

Your first visit is always in person on Shallowford Road. After that, visits start out weekly, then move to every two weeks, then to monthly, and a routine visit usually takes 30 to 45 minutes. Follow-up visits can be by video unless your provider asks to see you. If you are on Sublocade or Brixadi, you come to the clinic for each injection.

Can I come to the Chattanooga clinic from Alabama or Georgia?+

We see patients from Alabama case by case. You need to live close enough to come to Shallowford Road for your first visit, and our team checks whether your insurance is accepted when you call. Georgia Medicaid and most major Georgia plans are accepted. If you live closer to Ringgold, our Ringgold, GA clinic also prescribes Suboxone and is open on Fridays.

Is Suboxone treatment confidential?+

Yes. Your records are protected by HIPAA and by 42 CFR Part 2, the federal rule for addiction-treatment records, and they are not shared without your written consent, except in limited cases the law allows, such as a medical emergency or a court order.

References

The statistics on this page come from peer-reviewed medical research. Patients, family members, and providers are welcome to verify any claim against the original source.

Sordo L, Barrio G, Bravo MJ, et al. Mortality risk during and after opioid substitution treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. BMJ. 2017;357:j1550. [PubMed]
Kakko J, Svanborg KD, Kreek MJ, Heilig M. 1-year retention and social function after buprenorphine-assisted relapse prevention treatment for heroin dependence in Sweden: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2003;361(9358):662–668. [PubMed]
Weiss RD, Potter JS, Fiellin DA, et al. Adjunctive counseling during brief and extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment for prescription opioid dependence: a 2-phase randomized controlled trial. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(12):1238–1246. [PubMed]
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). National Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder: 2020 Focused Update. [ASAM]

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Same-day appointments at our Shallowford Road clinic. Most major insurance plans accepted.

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