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Louisville treatment directory — what you need to know
340
fatal overdoses in Jefferson County in 2024, down 32% from 2023 — per Louisville Metro Public Health & Wellness. Source
408
fentanyl-involved deaths in Jefferson County in 2023 — highest of any Kentucky county. Source
6 MCOs
deliver Kentucky Medicaid in Jefferson County; all six cover ASAM Levels 1.0 through 3.7 and MOUD without prior auth. Source
KRS 218A.133
Kentucky Good Samaritan law — calling 911 for an overdose protects both caller and victim from possession charges. Source
The overdose picture in Jefferson County
Fatal overdoses fell sharply in 2024, but fentanyl still drives the epidemic and burden is unevenly distributed across Louisville's neighborhoods.
Jefferson County recorded 340 fatal overdoses in 2024, a 32.1% drop from 501 in 2023 and the first sustained decline since the fentanyl surge began in 2019. Preliminary figures come from the Jefferson County Coroner and the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health & Wellness; final 2024 numbers are expected in mid-2026. The direction of travel mirrors a statewide decline of 29.1% reported by the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy for the same year.
The decline does not change the composition of the crisis. In 2023, Jefferson County logged 408 fentanyl-involved deaths — the highest of any county in Kentucky. Approximately 60% of Jefferson County decedents in 2023 had methamphetamine or cocaine present alongside fentanyl, a polysubstance pattern documented in LMPHW surveillance briefs and consistent with CDC WONDER multiple-cause-of-death data for FIPS 21111. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl is now present in roughly nine of every ten fatal overdoses across the Louisville metro.
Jefferson County carries a disproportionate share of the statewide burden. Louisville Metro holds about 17% of Kentucky's population but accounted for roughly 24% of the state's 1,410 overdose deaths in 2024. Harm concentrates geographically: census tracts in the West End (Russell, Shawnee, California) and Portland consistently report fatal-overdose rates above the county average, per LMPHW tract-level data. Downtown, Shively, and South End tracts show elevated rates tied to unsheltered homelessness and limited transportation access to treatment.
What is driving the 2024 decline
LMPHW and community partners distributed tens of thousands of naloxone kits through 2023–2024 under the statewide standing order; Kentucky Senate Bill 192 (2015) removed prescription-style barriers to lay access.
Kentucky reclassified fentanyl test strips out of "drug paraphernalia" in 2023, allowing harm-reduction programs including Louisville Metro Harm Reduction Outreach Services to distribute them openly at 400 E. Gray Street and at rotating satellite sites.
Louisville Metro Corrections expanded buprenorphine induction in 2024 to all bookees screening positive for opioid use disorder — a model shown in peer-reviewed evaluations to cut post-release overdose mortality by more than half.
For residents and families searching for care today, the improving trend is real but thin. Fentanyl remains the dominant cause of death; polysubstance exposure is now the rule, not the exception; and access to evidence-based treatment — detailed in the sections below — is still unevenly distributed across Louisville's neighborhoods.
Louisville crisis and helpline numbers
If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Otherwise, any of the following are free, confidential, and available 24/7 unless noted.
Where Louisville's addiction care actually happens
Louisville's treatment system is anchored by a regional community mental health center, two academic medical campuses, one of the country's largest social-model long-term recovery programs, and a web of federally qualified health centers serving the West End and South End.
Seven Counties Services
Seven Counties Services is the state-designated Community Mental Health Center for Jefferson and six surrounding counties. Seven Counties operates a 24/7 crisis line (502-589-4313), outpatient medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine and naltrexone), an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), and the Jefferson Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center (JADAC) for non-hospital detox and rehab referrals. In-network with all six Kentucky Medicaid managed-care organizations and most commercial plans.
UofL Health — Peace Hospital
UofL Health Peace Hospital provides inpatient psychiatric and substance-use stabilization, including co-occurring disorder treatment and ASAM Level 3.7 medically monitored inpatient detox. UofL Health's downtown academic campus is the regional trauma and emergency referral point; overdose cases presenting at UofL Health emergency departments are now routinely offered buprenorphine initiation before discharge.
The Healing Place (men's)
The Healing Place runs two Louisville campuses. The men's recovery program at 1020 W. Market Street (Downtown / Portland edge) uses a peer-led social-model approach with no fees charged to residents, funded by state grants, opioid-settlement allocations, and philanthropy. Average length of stay runs six to twelve months.
The Healing Place (women's)
Sister campus to the men's program. Same social-model, peer-led approach — no fees charged to residents, six-to-twelve month average stay. Combined capacity across the two campuses exceeds 1,000 beds, making The Healing Place one of the largest social-model recovery programs in the United States.
Volunteers of America — Freedom House
Volunteers of America Mid-States operates Freedom House, a residential treatment program for pregnant women and mothers with their children. Freedom House provides on-site OB care, parenting support, and SUD treatment in a single setting — one of few such programs in Kentucky.
FQHCs — Park DuValle & Family Health Centers
For uninsured or under-insured residents, the primary point of entry is Park DuValle Community Health Center and Family Health Centers Louisville. Both are listed on the HRSA health center finder and offer sliding-scale integrated primary care plus SUD counseling, buprenorphine prescribing, and referrals to higher levels of care.
What rehab actually costs in Louisville — and who pays
Louisville is unusual among Kentucky cities in that a major commercial insurer, Humana Inc., is headquartered downtown. Six Medicaid MCOs cover the full ASAM continuum, and prior-authorization for MOUD was removed in 2022.
Louisville is unusual among Kentucky cities in that a major commercial insurer, Humana Inc., is headquartered downtown at 500 W. Main Street. Most Louisville SUD providers are in-network with commercial Humana plans as well as Humana Healthy Horizons (the company's Kentucky Medicaid managed-care product). Other large Jefferson County payers include Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kentucky (commercial and Medicaid), Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, and Cigna.
Kentucky expanded Medicaid in 2014 under executive order by Governor Steve Beshear, and today Kentucky Medicaid covers adults up to 138% of the federal poverty line. In Jefferson County, Medicaid is delivered through six managed-care organizations: Passport Health Plan by Molina, Anthem Medicaid, Humana Healthy Horizons, WellCare of Kentucky, Aetna Better Health of Kentucky, and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan. All six cover the full ASAM continuum — outpatient (Level 1.0) through medically monitored inpatient (Level 3.7) — plus methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone.
A 2022 rule change by the Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services removed prior-authorization requirements for initiation of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). A buprenorphine prescription started in a Louisville emergency department or in a Seven Counties outpatient visit can be filled the same day on Medicaid without a 24–72 hour PA window.
For uninsured residents, the path is different. The Healing Place charges residents nothing. Seven Counties Services offers sliding-scale fees based on income. FQHCs (Park DuValle, Family Health Centers) apply sliding-scale fees as low as $25 per visit. Self-pay rates at commercial residential programs in Louisville typically range $15,000–$35,000 for a 30-day inpatient stay; ask directly about settlement-funded scholarship beds, which have expanded under the 2025 Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission allocation to Louisville Metro.
Kentucky Good Samaritan law and prescription monitoring
Calling 911 for someone overdosing in Louisville is legally protected under KRS 218A.133 — but the immunity is narrower than many people assume.
- Citation
- KRS 218A.133
- Short title
- Kentucky Good Samaritan overdose-immunity statute
- Enacted by
- Senate Bill 192 (2015 Regular Session)
- Effective
- March 25, 2015
Kentucky's drug-overdose Good Samaritan statute is codified at KRS 218A.133 and was enacted by Senate Bill 192 (2015 Regular Session), effective March 25, 2015.
The statute grants immunity from arrest, charge, prosecution, and conviction for a possession-of-controlled-substance offense under KRS Chapter 218A to a person who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance for someone experiencing a drug overdose — and to the overdose victim on whose behalf the assistance is sought. The immunity attaches when the evidence supporting the possession charge was obtained as a result of the person seeking or receiving medical help. That covers possession of heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, unprescribed prescription opioids, and drug paraphernalia.
What the immunity does NOT cover
- Trafficking charges (possession with intent to distribute, manufacture, or deliver)
- Outstanding warrants
- Probation or parole violations
- Offenses unrelated to the overdose event (DUI, assault, firearms, etc.)
In plain terms: if you call 911 for someone overdosing, the responding Louisville Metro Police officer cannot charge you for the drugs they find on scene that made the emergency visible — but the officer can still arrest on a warrant or on separate conduct. A fuller explainer is available from the Louisville Metro Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods.
KASPER and prescription monitoring
Kentucky's prescription drug monitoring program is KASPER — the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system, administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Every Schedule II–V controlled substance dispensed in Kentucky is logged. Prescribers querying KASPER before writing a controlled prescription is standard of care; patients concerned about their own KASPER record can request a copy directly from CHFS.
Jefferson County Drug Court
Non-violent defendants with substance use disorders may be eligible for Jefferson County Drug Court, a treatment-supervised diversion program operated by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts. Completion can result in dismissal or reduction of underlying charges; eligibility is determined at arraignment.
Harm reduction, naloxone, and mutual-aid recovery in Louisville
Where to get sterile supplies, free naloxone, and connection to the 400+ AA and NA meetings that run every week in Jefferson County.
- Location
- 400 E. Gray Street, Louisville, KY 40202
- Hours
- Monday–Friday, 9:00am–3:00pm
- Phone
- 502-574-8800
- Website
- louisvilleky.gov/public-health
Louisville's public-health-operated syringe services program is housed at 400 E. Gray Street; main-site hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00am–3:00pm. The program also runs rotating mobile and satellite sites across Portland, the West End, the South End, and downtown. On-site services include sterile syringe exchange (1-for-1 plus starter kits for new participants), free naloxone with training, fentanyl test strips, HIV and hepatitis C testing, wound-care assessment, and direct linkage to medication for opioid use disorder. Participation is anonymous.
Naloxone outside the exchange
Under Kentucky's statewide naloxone standing order, any Louisville pharmacist may dispense naloxone without a patient-specific prescription. The Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy maintains a map of participating pharmacies. Louisville Metro Corrections also distributes naloxone kits to individuals at release.
Mutual-aid recovery networks
The Louisville AA Intergroup Central Office at 332 W. Broadway, Suite 110 maintains a searchable meeting directory covering roughly 400 weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings across Jefferson County, including in-person, hybrid, and women's-only, young-people's, and LGBTQ+-focused formats. Narcotics Anonymous meetings are listed at louisvillena.org. SMART Recovery and Refuge Recovery meetings also run weekly in Louisville, with schedules hosted by the respective national organizations.
Recovery community centers
Peer-run recovery community centers in Louisville include The Healing Place alumni network and Volunteers of America's peer-support services. Peer specialists are increasingly embedded in Louisville emergency departments and in Louisville Metro Corrections as part of the post-2023 opioid-settlement expansion.
Louisville neighborhoods and ZIP codes
Facility density and access patterns vary sharply across Louisville. The nine areas below anchor most of the city's treatment footprint and most of the overdose burden.
Downtown / Central Business District
The Healing Place (men's), AA Central Office, Seven Counties HQ, UofL Health downtown campus edge. Highest day-time treatment density in the city.
Highlands
Dense outpatient and therapist corridor along Bardstown Rd. UofL Health Peace Hospital (2020 Newburg Rd) sits at the southern edge.
NuLu (East Market)
Recovery community centers, peer-support nonprofits, and newer outpatient programs along East Market.
Portland
West-side harm-reduction focus and high-need tract per LMPHW data. Metro Harm Reduction Outreach Services satellite stops rotate through Portland weekly.
Shively
South-end outpatient providers serving Shively, Pleasure Ridge Park, and the Valley Station corridor.
Germantown / Schnitzelburg
Residential recovery housing and sober-living density south of Broadway.
South End / Okolona
Distance-from-downtown IOP options and Iroquois / Family Health Centers FQHC coverage.
West End (Russell, Shawnee, California)
Historically under-served; anchored by Park DuValle Community Health Center (1015 W. Chestnut) and the women's Healing Place campus (1503 S. 15th).
Butchertown / Clifton
Transitional housing and sober-living density; easy access to UofL Health downtown.
Across the Ohio River, Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana are accessible via I-65 bridges. The Louisville metro treatment market effectively crosses state lines; residents regularly use both Kentucky and Indiana providers. Cross-river facilities appear in the Louisville Metro directory further down this page.
Sources and authority references
All statistics, legal citations, and provider details on this page trace to the primary sources below. Every link opens in a new tab and is not affiliated with RehabHive.
- KRS 218A.133 (Kentucky Good Samaritan overdose immunity)
- Senate Bill 192 (2015 RS) legislative record
- Jefferson County Coroner
- Louisville Metro Department of Public Health & Wellness
- Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP)
- Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services
- KASPER — Kentucky PDMP
- Louisville Metro Syringe Exchange / Harm Reduction
- 988 Kentucky Lifeline
- CDC WONDER (Jefferson Co. FIPS 21111)
- HRSA health center finder
- Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission
- SAMHSA National Helpline / findtreatment.gov
Editorial review: This page is maintained by the RehabHive Editorial Team. Medical and legal claims were last reviewed on 2026-04-23. We do not provide medical advice. For clinical decisions, consult a licensed provider. For emergencies, call 911.
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Seven Counties Services Adult South
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville Metro — cross-river and suburban facilities
The Louisville metro treatment market crosses state lines. The following Indiana (Southern Indiana) and Kentucky suburban cities are within 25 miles of downtown Louisville and are routinely used by Louisville-area residents. Facilities listed here are pulled from RehabHive's SAMHSA-verified directory.
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Spero Health - Jeffersonville
Jeffersonville, IN
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TruHealing Riverbend
Jeffersonville, IN
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Aster Springs - Jeffersonville
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LifeSpring Health Systems Adult Behavioral Services
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LifeSpring Health Systems Integrated Treatment Center
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New Albany Community Medical Services
New Albany, IN
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North Clark Medical Group
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Frequently Asked Questions
Will I get arrested if I call 911 for someone overdosing in Louisville?
No — not for possessing the drugs that caused the overdose. Kentucky's Good Samaritan statute, KRS 218A.133, gives both the person who calls for help and the overdose victim immunity from arrest, charge, prosecution, and conviction for a possession offense under KRS Chapter 218A, provided the evidence against them was obtained because they sought medical help. That covers heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, unprescribed prescription opioids, and paraphernalia. The statute does not protect against trafficking charges, outstanding warrants, or unrelated offenses. In practice: a Louisville Metro Police officer responding to your 911 call cannot charge you for the drugs they find at the scene, but can still act on an open warrant or on conduct unrelated to the overdose. Stay with the person, call 911, and provide rescue breathing and naloxone if available.
Does Kentucky Medicaid cover inpatient rehab in Louisville?
Yes. Kentucky Medicaid covers the full ASAM continuum, including medically monitored inpatient treatment (ASAM Level 3.7), medically managed inpatient (3.7-WM) detox, residential treatment, intensive outpatient (IOP), and standard outpatient. Medications for opioid use disorder — buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone — are all covered, and since a 2022 rule change by the Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services, no prior authorization is required for MOUD initiation. In Jefferson County, Medicaid is delivered through six managed-care organizations: Passport Health Plan by Molina, Anthem Medicaid, Humana Healthy Horizons, WellCare of Kentucky, Aetna Better Health of Kentucky, and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan. All six use substantially the same covered-services list; differences lie in provider networks. Before admission, confirm with the facility that they are in-network with your specific MCO.
Where can I get free naloxone in Louisville?
Three primary channels. First, Metro Harm Reduction Outreach Services at 400 E. Gray Street distributes naloxone with training, Monday through Friday, 9am–3pm, along with mobile outreach at rotating satellite sites. Second, under Kentucky's statewide pharmacy standing order, any pharmacist in Louisville can dispense naloxone without a patient-specific prescription — the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy lists participating pharmacies. Third, Louisville Metro Corrections distributes naloxone kits to people at release, and many hospital emergency departments in Louisville (UofL Health, Norton, Baptist Health) now offer take-home naloxone before discharge after an overdose visit. If you need a kit now and cannot reach 400 E. Gray, call Seven Counties Services 24/7 at 502-589-4313 for guidance.
How much does rehab in Louisville cost if I do not have insurance?
It depends on the setting, but meaningful no-cost and low-cost options exist in Louisville specifically. The Healing Place — men's program at 1020 W. Market Street, women's program at 1503 S. 15th Street — charges residents nothing for long-term recovery housing and peer-led treatment. Seven Counties Services and the federally qualified health centers (Park DuValle, Family Health Centers Louisville) use sliding-scale fees tied to income; a sliding-scale outpatient visit can run as low as $25. Self-pay rates at commercial residential programs typically range $15,000–$35,000 for a 30-day inpatient stay, though many Louisville programs now hold settlement-funded scholarship beds paid for by the 2025 Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission allocation to Louisville Metro — ask the facility directly whether any of its beds are scholarship-funded. For immediate no-cost navigation help, call the Kentucky statewide helpline 833-859-4357 (833-8KY-HELP) or Seven Counties Services at 502-589-4313.
Can I get medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine or methadone) the same day in Louisville?
Yes, in multiple settings. Emergency departments at UofL Health, Norton Healthcare, and Baptist Health routinely initiate buprenorphine for patients presenting with opioid withdrawal or after an overdose, then hand off to outpatient follow-up. Seven Counties Services (502-589-4313) offers same-day intake for outpatient buprenorphine in many cases. For methadone, Louisville has multiple federally certified opioid treatment programs (OTPs) — methadone dosing is specifically restricted to OTPs by federal law (42 CFR Part 8), so a general outpatient clinic cannot provide it. As of a 2022 Kentucky Medicaid rule change, no prior authorization is required for MOUD initiation on any of the six Medicaid MCOs operating in Jefferson County, so a same-day prescription can be filled that day. If your primary concern is cost, Park DuValle Community Health Center and Family Health Centers Louisville both prescribe buprenorphine on a sliding scale.
About Louisville Treatment Resources
Every facility listed on this page is sourced from SAMHSA’s National Treatment Locator and cross-referenced with Kentucky state licensing data. Overdose trend statistics draw on CDC WONDER mortality records. Insurance coverage guidance follows the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (DOL) and NIDA Principles of Effective Treatment.
Medical disclaimer: RehabHive provides informational content only. For a medical emergency, call 911. For free confidential guidance, call the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357 (24/7, free). This listing does not imply endorsement of any specific provider.
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