New detox facility opens in Austintown

September 10, 2015 at 9:49p.m.

AUSTINTOWN

Due to the increase in heroin addiction cases, a newly opened detox facility is ready to tackle the problem.

“There’s a heroin epidemic here,” said Kourtney Gherardi, program director of Braking Point Recovery Center.

The center is located at the former Austintown Health Care Center, 45 N. Canfield-Niles Road, and celebrated the opening of its Robert J. Scotchie Detox Wing during a ribbon-cutting ceremony this evening. The 15-bed facility will provide detox services for drug and alcohol addicts for about five to seven days, she said. Patients are then transferred to other programs.

Within the next three months, Braking Point plans to open a 28-day residential stay for up to 36 graduate patients.

Ryan Sheridan, the owner of Braking Point, said the center has 25 employees now and is currently hiring nurses and counselors.

Read more about the new facility and how it came into being in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.