 Frontier Behavioral Health celebrated the opening of its newest residential treatment facility Wednesday, March 27th. The facility will host 16 patients and offers a wide variety of reintegration programs. Today is exciting. We're opening up a new treatment facility by Frontier. It's going to help 16 individuals, 16 more chances to get better, 16 more chances to beat addiction and then 16 more people can come in after that. We are seeing real improvement, real steps in this fight against the opioid epidemic. We're now ranked number one per capita treatment beds in the country. Number one for treating adult mental health and that's resulted in things like our overdose rate going down, being one of only eight states in the country that that happened in 2022. And it's the hard work of the people here and the courage of the folks that say I have a problem and I need help. At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing with 40 years of being in the hearing care industry you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. To aid in patient success, Frontier Behavioral Health has partnered with Big Sandy Community and Technical College to offer adult education services. The program known as Thrive integrates treatment, healing, recovery, vocational and education efforts into the recovery process. This treatment I mean it's just set the right path for them without arming our clients you know after their successful treatment. If you don't help them to rebuild their life on a strong foundation based on education and and other skill to be able like to to find the help in the workforce I mean the success rate is so low so that's basically that's you know this kind of facility is what it will lay the foundation for that success. The program has had 146 participants with nearly 50 continuing their post-secondary education following the completion of the program. Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia they were we've been the the epicenter for the opioid epidemic for almost 30 years now you know we've seen a lot of lives destroyed a lot of families torn apart and destroyed there's so much damage all throughout the region but you know having the opportunity to be able to put quality treatment programs together and to be able to bring resources together to help be a part of the solution you know it means a lot to each and every one of our employees at Frontier Behavioral Health you know just to be able to to help the healing and that someday here real soon that maybe we can end this opioid epidemic throughout this region. Reporting for mountaintop news I'm Brianna Robinson