Wielding the ceremonial scissors, Gov. Andy Beshear helps cut the ribbon on the Yellow Banks Recovery Center in Owensboro. Beshear is flanked by Tim Robinson, founder and CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, third from left in the photo, and Rocky Adkins, senior adviser to Beshear, Aug. 3, 2023. The center was ARC’s first in Western Kentucky. (Photo courtesy of ARC)
FRANKFORT — In his State of the Commonwealth speech in January, Gov. Andy Beshear took a moment to address the scourge of addiction in Kentucky, singling out for praise the state’s largest provider of treatment services.
Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, the Eastern Kentucky-based company — with about 75% of the state’s treatment beds — has grown rapidly over the past decade to dominate the treatment business, financed mostly through Medicaid.