Throughout National Recovery Month in September, Kentucky’s leading treatment provider Addiction Recovery Care (ARC) is celebrating the success stories of its clients who have experienced the power of healing, transformation and recovery in their lives.
Recovery Month, first observed in 1989, spotlights America’s strong and resilient recovery community, evidence-based treatment best practices and dedicated service providers who make recovery in all its forms possible.
“This Recovery Month is especially meaningful for those of us serving on the frontlines of the addiction crisis here in Kentucky,” said Vanessa Keeton, ARC’s first-ever client, who now serves as the organization’s Vice President of Marketing. “We’ve seen momentous progress in both enhancing high-quality, effective treatment resources and in reducing the number of overdose fatalities across the Commonwealth.”
A 2024 East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Center for Rural Research study found that Kentucky ranked #1 in the United States in residential treatment beds per capita, with 70.34 beds per 100,000 population. This figure was more than double the rate of the bordering Appalachian states of Ohio (31.23), West Virginia (30.08), Tennessee (29.61), and Virginia (10.27).
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), overdose deaths dropped by 3% nationwide in 2023. And the Bluegrass State’s pace was even more dramatic, with the 2023 Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Report revealing a 9.8% decrease in overdose deaths last year.
“Since I began my recovery journey in 2010, ARC has served more than 75,000 clients,” added Keeton. “That’s 75,000 mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children and grandchildren seeking to break the heavy chains of addiction and blaze a new path toward peace, productivity and purpose.”
ARC’s comprehensive approach to addiction treatment includes a full continuum of care, including detox, residential, transitional, intensive outpatient, outpatient, medically assisted treatment (MAT), vocational rehabilitation, and job training.
Focused on treating the whole person, the ARC program emphasizes five pillars of care for long-term success — Recovery, Opportunity, Physical Health, Emotional Health and Spiritual Life (R.O.P.E.S.).
“This Recovery Month we are celebrating the victories won by the individuals God has entrusted to our care,” said Keeton. “And we’re recommitting ourselves to helping all of those who will walk through our doors in the coming months to begin writing their own success stories.”
To view powerful personal testimonials of recovery from ARC clients, please visit our YouTube channel: youtube.com/arccenters.
