Spero Health

About Spero Health

Spero Health in Parkersburg, West Virginia, is part of a network of more than 75 outpatient addiction treatment clinics across six states. They focus mainly on opioid use disorder, including fentanyl, heroin, and prescription painkillers, and also treat other substance use disorders. Their integrated model, based on American Society of Addiction Medicine guidelines, places medical care, counseling, and care coordination with one team. Care is offered as standard outpatient treatment, an intensive outpatient program at many locations, and telehealth visits for eligible West Virginia residents, and they accept Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurance.

Medication-assisted treatment is central to their work, with options including daily Suboxone, monthly Sublocade injections, weekly or monthly Brixadi, and Vivitrol, a non-opioid injection that can also help with alcohol cravings. Medication is always paired with individual or group counseling, and IOP adds structured group therapy several days a week along with relapse prevention planning. Recovery support staff help patients with practical needs like employment, housing, child care, legal issues, and transportation, and they offer wellness programming for smoking cessation, sleep, and nutrition. Visits are more frequent early in treatment and taper as patients stabilize, with accountability built in through medication counts, urine drug testing, and prescription monitoring.