Ridge

Located twenty minutes from Cincinnati, The Ridge boasts exquisite natural beauty and private serenity for a relaxing recovery experience.

With an impressive recovery rate cited by The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Ridge is a Physician-Managed & Joint Commission certified program with services and amenities including:

Addiction Professional Magazine Article

We accept most insurances out of network*. We can verify your benefits and calculate your co-pay, usually within 90 minutes.

Just a few of the many major insurance providers we accept out of network:

*unfortunately Medicaid and Medicare do not cover our treatment services.

Facilitated by our compassionate medical staff, Our treatment program is the most focused of its kind, because it’s run by our seasoned Medical Director Dr. Marc Whitsett, who’s vision for the very best Ohio drug rehab treatment centers  guides the clinical team and your recovery process.

Dr. Whitsett’s treatment program is successfully executed by our staff of doctors, nurses and experienced, licensed counselors. We also have a psychiatrist on-staff to help clients address various mental health issues.

Dr. Whitsett continues the legacy started by Dr. Jeffrey Stuckert of successfully treating the diseases of alcohol and opiate addiction at The Ridge and will add a valuable skill set to The Ridge’s high quality services.

The Ridge Had An Article Written About Them In The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Maternal opiate treatment & healthy education resources.

Podcast of the Bill Cunningham show featuring the Medical Director from The Ridge Ohio, Doctor Marc Whitsett.

At The Ridge, we’ve spoken about the dangers of alcohol withdrawal. Of all substances, alcohol withdrawal is the most

Most addictive drugs have both a mental and physical component, and opioids are no different. Physical addiction in particular

All of us can tell when a person is drunk. The signs are overt and well-known. A drunk person

If you’ve helped an addicted loved one into treatment you’ve already done them a potentially life-saving service, but treatment

A loved one’s addiction can be an ugly thing, a disease taking over their life and ruining everything they’ve

Podcast of the Bill Cunningham show featuring the Medical Director from The Ridge Ohio, Doctor Marc Whitsett.

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 4 months ago →

At The Ridge, we’ve spoken about the dangers of alcohol withdrawal. Of all substances, alcohol withdrawal is the most likely to be deadly in extreme cases without proper treatment. Even heroin withdrawal, as difficult as it is, isn’t as dangerous as withdrawal from alcohol. That’s why it’s so essential that alcohol withdrawal protocol is managed by expert physicians who are knowledgeable in the process. When doctors manage alcohol withdrawal, the danger of lethal complications dramatically decreases. One way that withdrawal is managed is by the use of prescription benzodiazepines. These drugs are powerful tranquilizers that affect the brain in a way similar to alcohol. Since the worst alcohol withdrawal symptoms—delirium tremens, hallucinations, seizures—come from a hyperactive brain, using a tranquilizer to calm the brain down understandably mitigates the worst effects. We have patients visit us as far as Columbus, Ohio for alcohol treatment. However, using benzos during alcohol withdrawal carries its own risks that you need a skilled doctor to avoid. Benzos are extremely addictive themselves, and have their own difficult withdrawal period. The best way to prevent addiction or withdrawal is for your doctor to prescribe a series of ever-decreasing doses over a set period of time. By weaning off of benzos, you avoid withdrawing from them, and using them only temporarily makes addiction very unlikely. The Ridge is a physician managed facility with a staff of addictionologists and treatment experts. Click here to about us. It’s important to be aware that withdrawal from continued, high amounts of alcohol should be managed by a physician. However, there are situations where one might be forced to withdraw from alcohol without that kind of preparation. If an alcoholic suffers a serious accident and is taken to the hospital, they will be unable to drink while being treated, forcing them to undergo withdrawal. We’ve heard stories of people detoxing from alcohol while in the hospital, with the doctors treating them not familiar enough with addiction to realize what’s happening to their patients. Some doctors who are ignorant of what addiction is or how harmful withdrawal can be will not treat the withdrawal process in a misguided attempt to punish the addict and teach them a lesson about the consequences of their actions. While this isn’t sure to happen—there are thousands of great doctors who can provide effective, proper treatment—it’s worth knowing there’s a possibility. The best way to be sure that alcoholic’s withdrawal process is safely managed according to proper alcohol withdrawal protocol is to get them into a treatment center. The Ridge’s staff physicians can safely oversee alcohol withdrawal, both at The Ridge and at local Cincinnati hospitals. Our 28-day treatment program will give alcoholics the tools they need to get into recovery and maintain long-term health, happiness, and sobriety.

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 8 months ago →

Most addictive drugs have both a mental and physical component, and opioids are no different. Physical addiction in particular means that the addicted person is compelled to keep taking the drug in order to avoid feeling physical pain from withdrawal. Every drug’s withdrawal symptoms are slightly different and are addressed accordingly by drug treatment programs. However, they all share the same root: the drugs have altered the user’s brains such that the only time they can feel comfort or pleasure is while high, and a sober brain, which most people would consider to feel perfectly normal, actively causes pain. In this article, we’ll be looking closely at opioid withdrawal and what it means to an addict or recovering addict. We’ve treated several clients from the Cleveland, Ohio area. Opioids are an extremely dangerous drug to be addicted to, and its withdrawal period is extremely difficult to get through without substance abuse treatment. After 12 hours since the last use, heroin addicts will begin feeling the symptoms of withdrawal. The first symptoms are generally relatively mild, like increased sweating and tearing, muscle aches, insomnia, and a feeling or agitation or anxiety. Of course, “mild” here is used in comparison to deadly withdrawals like alcohol withdrawal. Someone experiencing these symptoms is unlikely to describe them as mild, considering how uncomfortable they are to feel. Knowing how unpleasant these feelings are, and how soon after drug use they manifest, it’s easy to see why a user of opioids might become physically dependent on them. Especially since many opioid addicts were hooked unintentionally after being prescribed painkillers, they had no way to see their drug addiction coming. As withdrawal continues, the symptoms will get more severe, prompting the addict more than before to find and use more drugs. They will be gripped by an intense feeling of nausea, often accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal cramping. This is a miserable feeling to suffer through, as a person’s entire body feels sick and painful. But as one of many steps to recovery, it’s something an addict needs to do. The Ridge’s expert addiction treatment program puts even the most complex cases of opiate addiction on the path to recovery. Read more. It’s a small blessing, but a blessing nonetheless that opioid withdrawal isn’t life-threatening. That doesn’t mean it’s completely safe, though. Addicted people are generally very malnourished, and that can include being dehydrated. If an addict goes through the withdrawal process alone with no doctors, nurses, or counselors to help, they can easily make themselves dangerously dehydrated from too much vomiting and diarrhea. This can cause serious complications, but rarely results in death. More dangerous is aspiration—the act of breathing vomit into the lungs. The bacteria found in stomachs was never meant to be in a person’s lungs, so dangerous infections are likely to occur if this happens. The worst side-effect of opioid withdrawal isn’t the withdrawal itself, actually: it’s the risk of early relapse. When an addict detoxifies and breaks their physical addiction, their […]

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 8 months ago →

All of us can tell when a person is drunk. The signs are overt and well-known. A drunk person has poor balance, finding it difficult to walk straight. Their speech is slurred and sometimes nonsensical. Their reaction times are slowed, and they’re more likely to fall, slip, or knock something over. And yet, most people don’t know what it is about alcohol that makes these effects occur. Alcohol affects many different parts of the brain, not only causing the famous effects of drunkenness, but planting the seeds of alcoholism. Getting alcohol abuse help can then start the process of healing that damage to the brain. To understand how alcohol affects the brain, you have to understand neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that change your thoughts, emotions, and feelings. When certain things happen, your brain produces a neurotransmitter that then binds to a brain cell that accepts it. When the neurotransmitter binds with the receptor cell, it changes your brain activity. There are two main kinds of neurotransmitters: excitatory, which increase electrical activity in the brain, and inhibitory, which slows it down. Alcohol causes the brain to release the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. GABA is the cause of drunk people’s poor motor function, slowed movement, slurred speech, and clumsiness. GABA also inhibits the part of the brain that limits dopamine production, indirectly causing the excessive dopamine production common with all addictive drugs. The amount of GABA in the brain also inhibits the production of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, which only increases alcohol’s ability to make a person sluggish, slow, and unable to fully control their bodies. The inhibitory nature of alcohol affects the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of “grey matter” in our brains responsible for higher thinking. This is why people have poor judgment and low inhibitions when drinking alcohol. The cerebral cortex, which would normally help a person think about and judge their situation to find the best way to act, instead is unable to think clearly and doesn’t filter a drinker’s actions. Chronic alcohol abuse doesn’t just temporarily inhibit brain function—it causes permanent damage. Brain cells themselves become physically damaged, forever reducing their ability to carry information and electrical signals. That is to say, the brain becomes worse at its job. Alcohol also changes the way the body processes vitamin B, causing Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, caused by vitamin B deficiency. People with the syndrome have long-term coordination issues, chronic confusion, and vision problems. In severe cases, it can even cause significant memory loss or the inability to form new memories. Alcohol’s effects on the brain are too significant to dismiss. Don’t let you or someone you love fall victim. Get them alcohol abuse in Cincinnati, Ohio help at The Ridge now.

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 8 months ago →

If you’ve helped an addicted loved one into treatment you’ve already done them a potentially life-saving service, but treatment isn’t a “cure”—the patient will always have to work on his/her drug or alcohol recovery. It’s not an easy process, and it’s difficult to know how to live with someone going through it. Seeing a loved one become addicted is like seeing them become an entirely different person. All the things that made them who they are fall away and are replaced by drugs or alcohol. They lose control of their lives and hurt the people around them. Seeing them come back from treatment sober can be a gift beyond price—but what comes next? Should you treat them as if the addiction never happened? How much stress is OK to feel about living with them? The key to understanding the answers comes with education. As a family member or loved one of an addict, it’s important to know that treatment isn’t finished when rehab ends. Aftercare meetings are an invaluable asset for preventing a devastating relapse. As the addict’s primary support system, it’s up to you to ensure that they are attending their meetings, even if they feel the meetings are no longer necessary. The Ridge is a highly-accredited and certified facility that treats addiction during every step of recovery, with intervention resources to aftercare services with clients from Toledo, Ohio. For more information, contact us. Beyond that, it’s important to be positively involved in your family member or loved one’s life. The first few months sober outside of a treatment facility provide a minefield of temptations, and positive engagement can be extremely helpful. An alcoholic or addict left to themselves by a timid family can get wrapped up in their own head and stress themselves out to the point where they reach for their old crutch. Make plans for new, exciting sober activities to keep them entertained and aware that you are ready to be a major part of their life. This also keeps you in close contact with the recovering addict so you can see if they seem to be at high risk of relapse. It might be easier to walk on eggshells around them, be patronizing, or simply be too scared to interact with them, but it’s your responsibility as the recovering addict’s support system to be there for them. Even if your interactions with your family member or loved one are as ideal as possible, you may have to deal with them slipping into relapse. A sober person’s natural reaction to this is frustration, anger, and disappointment—but these are poisonous feelings when you’re providing support for a recovering addict. Addiction is a vicious, tenacious disease that doesn’t just go away. Cravings will always be a reality and it only takes one moment of weakness for relapse to happen. It doesn’t mean the addict has given up, is betraying you,  or that treatment was pointless. All it means is that they failed once and need treatment as soon […]

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 8 months ago →

A loved one’s addiction can be an ugly thing, a disease taking over their life and ruining everything they’ve worked to accomplish. What can make this even more painful is if they are in denial about their condition and thus refuse treatment. How can they not see the disease that’s all too obvious to their friends and family? Admitting addiction or seeking drug alcohol abuse help isn’t something people want to do, so they will do whatever it takes to not do it. Getting them past denial is a delicate and necessary process, but first one has to understand the ways that denial can manifest in an addict. The simplest form of denial is plain old dishonesty. This type of denial manifests when a person is fully aware that they have a problem with drugs or alcohol but will lie and say they don’t when confronted. A well-planned intervention is generally enough to break through this kind of surface-level denial, as friends and family present the addicted person with their concern and support. More tricky is honest denial, where an addict truly believes they are in control and their drug habit is not a problem. This kind of denial takes many forms and can’t be fixed in an instant, but through a long, difficult process of self-discovery and acceptance. The first obstacle in this form of denial is getting the addict to admit that they do have a problem with drugs or alcohol. Alternately, they may admit to overusing from time to time but deny that are dependent on a substance. The antidote to this form of denial is education. If a person learns about the brain-altering nature of addiction, and that it is not a choice, but a disease, they will realize that it’s something that they do in fact suffer from. It’s essential that an addict moves beyond this type of denial, not only so that they will realize that they need treatment, but also because they’re unlikely to put in the necessary commitment to health unless they’re fully aware of how tenacious and dangerous the disease of addiction is. Although it may seem best, waiting until an addict loses everything doesn’t make recovery any easier. They feel powerless in their situation and the only solution is immediate recovery coming from Akron, Ohio. Contact us now for options. Even if an addict can accept their disease and decide to work for recovery, denial can still resurface and wreak havoc on their chances of sobriety. Most addicts know that after leaving treatment, they’ll require additional support to keep themselves sober and healthy. They know they aren’t all-powerful and that they can’t fight their disease without support and drug or alcohol abuse help. As a result, they attend meetings or continue outpatient care or aftercare. Denial sets in when an addict thinks this is not a necessary part of recovery. They assume that since they’ve successfully detoxified and had a good experience in rehab, that their addiction is over. By […]

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 8 months ago →

It happens all too often: an intelligent, successful, driven, white-collar professional becomes addicted to drugs. To many, it doesn’t even make sense. Most people think of drug addicts as dirty, homeless burnouts, not as prominent doctors, lawyers, and business people. And yet, more and more white-collar professionals are finding themselves addicted to drugs and in desperate need of alcohol or drug addiction rehab. Why? Understanding the answer lies in understanding addiction. It can happen to anyone, and once it takes hold, it’s nearly impossible to break without seeking treatment.            For many professionals, their jobs demand long hours and intense amounts of focus—this, understandably, breeds stress. It’s not a huge leap to think that they may want to try something to “take the edge off,” so to speak. Unfortunately, the so-called stress reliever often becomes the biggest problem in their life.            Most white-collar addicts are addicted to opiates, which Ohio health and law enforcement personnel say are more popular and prevalent than ever. People usually start by taking a prescription painkiller like Vicodin or Percocet. These drugs are easy, and legal, to get, and don’t carry the stigma of traditional hard drugs. Their legitimacy as medicine makes them seem safe. However, many find out that abusing these pills is anything but. It is common that Dayton, Ohio professionals who have become addicts feel completely powerless over their lives. Is this the case for you or a loved one? Contact The Ridge drug addiction rehab center to discover options for recovery.            As with all opiates, a user needs to take larger and larger doses of painkillers to achieve the same euphoric effect. Eventually it will become prohibitively expensive even for a wealthy user, considering many of these pills run almost $100 each. At this point, many make the transition to the more affordable, effective, and dangerous option of heroin.            Someone addicted to this degree can’t control their dependence even if they are a strong-willed professional who knows the dangers involved with opiate abuse. After a while, the addiction is no longer about getting high, relieving stress, or pursuit of a pleasurable feeling, but doing whatever is necessary to beat back the nigh-unbearable symptoms of withdrawal. They don’t continue their habit due to lack of will or selfishness—quitting is simply not an option that can be taken without a treatment program. And, unfortunately, some white-collar addicts don’t seek treatment. They fear being exposed as addicts, thinking it will tarnish their status in the workplace, or they ignore their problem, claiming their job is too important to take time out for rehabilitation. These built-in excuses only exacerbate their problem as they continue to use and deepen their addiction.            Opiates don’t care if someone is successful or what job they have—their brutal effects on the brain and body don’t discriminate, and a person can become addicted to them in as little as one week. It’s essential that professionals know that while a prescription pill may seem safe enough, its effect on the brain can plunge […]

Cincinnati, Ohio Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Ridge | 8 months ago →

Joint Commission Accredited: Strong Recovery Rate

The Ridge Ohio Medical Office/Headquarters 50 West Techne Center Drive, Suite #B-5Milford, Ohio 45150

1-866-902-9846 | [email protected]

Primary Focus of the Provider

• Substance Abuse Treatment Services

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Type of Care

• Substance abuse treatment
• Detoxification
• Buprenorphine used in treatment
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Vivitrol (injectable Naltrexone)
• Prescribes/administer buprenorphine and/or naltrexone

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Facility Type

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Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive/behavioral therapy
• Substance abuse counseling approach

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Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

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Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient
• Residential
• Outpatient
• Short-term residential
• Long-term residential
• Residential detoxification
• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or vivitrol
• Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Regular outpatient treatment
• Hospital inpatient detoxification
• Hospital inpatient treatment

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Facility Operation (e.g. Private, Public)

• Private organization
• State substance abuse agency
• State department of health
• The Joint Commission
• Other national oraganization

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Payment/Insurance Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• Private health insurance
• Military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

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Emergency Mental Health Services

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Payment Assistance Available

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Language Services

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Special Programs/Groups Offered

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Ancillary Services

• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Alcohol Detoxification
• Benzodiazepines Detoxification
• Cocaine Detoxification
• Methamphetamines Detoxification
• Opiods Detoxification
• Individual counseling offered
• Group counseling offered
• Family counseling offered
• Marital/couples counseling offered
• 12-step faciltitation approach
• Brief intervention approach
• Relapse prevention

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Age Groups Accepted

• Young adults
• Adults

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Gender Accepted

• Female
• Male

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Exclusive Services

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