Nashville Addiction Clinic & Recovery Care of Columbia Meeting Patients Where They Are with Compassion and Convenience
Compassion is key when it comes to helping someone overcome substance abuse and addiction, something the owners of Nashville Addiction Clinic and Recovery Care of Columbia know all too well.
“I’m in recovery,” Co-founder Jon Stolzer admits. “When I was a patient, I quickly realized l was only as important as the money I was spending on recovery. That kind experience turns people away from getting help, and that’s not how we treat people who turn to us.”
It’s that passion – and compassion – that inspired Stolzer to apply his entrepreneurial experience to something close to his heart. He co-founded Nashville Addiction Center in 2019 And Recovery Care of Columbia in 2021. Both are app-driven operations, creating access for those who need it most.
“Addiction steals a lot from people, including their pride,” Stolzer says. “Some patients are uncomfortable being seen entering a physical clinic, so we meet them where they’re most at ease – at home.”
Being app-driven also ensures patients who lack reliable transportation, or who can’t afford childcare can get the consistent help they need.
Nashville Addiction Clinic and Recovery Care of Columbia hold the distinction as Tennessee’s first fully licensed, all-virtual, medication-assisted addiction recovery treatment facilities. Both clinics made the leap from in-person to 100% telemedicine in August of last year.
Through its one-of-a-kind app, both clinics offer onboarding, counseling, and even a proprietary drug screening process that allows patients to collect urine or blood samples at home. Specimens are then mailed to the clinic’s lab partner for testing.
Each drug testing kit contains a rapid drug screen, specialized supplies for collecting and securing the specimen, and prepaid mailing materials.
Once the patient logs into the app on their phone, and checks in with the lab tech – who will witness the process, it’s as easy as 1-2-3.
1. Inventory the contents of the kit.
2. Provide the required specimen.
3. Use the enclosed mailing supplies to package – and ship the specimen.
Every kit, Stolzer says, is built to prevent tampering and ensure samples are unadulterated.
Both clinics specialize in the treatment of opioid and opiate abuse and misuse, both of which are at epidemic levels in the United States.
In 2020, emergency rooms across the country reported a whopping 7,714,521 drug-related visits.
“Fentanyl is a dangerously powerful synthetic opioid,” Stolzer explains. “Because it’s so cheap to make, drug dealers now use it as a cutting agent in other illicit drugs to stretch how much they have to sell. It’s now showing up in everything from meth to heroin to cocaine.”
Stolzer says fentanyl creates “hotspots” within those illicit drugs – inconsistent dosing where a user may be fine after the first few hits, then the next hit could overdose – even kill – them.
Stolzer is adamant – his clinics don’t chase money – they chase passion. From how they care for patients to how they treat employees, people are the priority. Both clinics are, as he puts it, homegrown, and locally operated by two guys in recovery.
Bottom line: Through Nashville Addiction Clinic and Recovery Care of Columbia, Stolzer hopes to set a new standard for the treatment of addiction.
“Because we’re online, we’re as accessible as their drug dealer,” Stolzer says, “Which gives patients a fighting chance when their triggers gain control and they start craving a fix. We have to be readily accessible when they need us the most.”
ABOUT NASHVILLE ADDICTION CLINIC & RECOVERY CARE OF COLUMBIA
Both clinics offer a state-of-the-art approach to addiction recovery, employing technology to connect with – and care for patients. NAC and RCC each treat 300-400 patients a month, directly tackling America’s opioid and opiate crisis with passion, compassion, and convenience.
Each facility uses an exclusive, app-driven approach to patient care, from identifying the a course of treatment to confidential counseling to its proprietary drug screen program, which ensures coverage by most major insurance companies. No insurance – no problem. NAC and RCC also offer a self-pay option, plus a special program to ensure EVERYONE seeking help with addiction gets it.
If you for someone you know is struggling with addiction, reach out to the clinic closes to you, nashvilleaddictionclinic.com, or recoverycarecolumbia.com.
