Widening the Door to Opioid Treatment: A Reeve Waud-Founded Company’s Growing Clinic Network

Opioid use disorder remains one of the hardest public health problems to reach, in part because effective treatment has to be available where people actually live. Acadia Healthcare has spent recent years expanding a network built exactly for that purpose. Its Comprehensive Treatment Centers, known as CTCs, deliver outpatient care that combines medication-assisted treatment with counseling.

The scale of that network has grown steadily. The CTC division now operates more than 165 locations and treats over 70,000 patients daily across more than 30 states. For a company founded by Reeve Waud in 2005 as a behavioral health provider, the outpatient opioid programs represent a large and expanding part of its reach.

How Comprehensive Treatment Centers Work

CTCs pair two things that research supports: medication that reduces cravings and withdrawal, and counseling that addresses the reasons behind substance use. Treating both sides at once gives patients a steadier path than either approach alone. The model is outpatient, so people can keep working, caring for family, and staying in their communities while receiving care.

Access is the recurring theme. A clinic that sits within reach removes one of the biggest obstacles to consistent treatment, which for opioid use disorder often means daily or near-daily visits. Adding locations, then, is not just growth for its own sake. It puts care within driving distance for more people who need it.

Recent Expansion in the Carolinas and Beyond

The company Reeve Waud founded has kept adding clinics. In 2024, Acadia Healthcare acquired three CTCs in North Carolina, in Raleigh, Greenville, and Hillsborough, which brought its North Carolina total to 10. That same year it acquired three opioid-treatment clinics in South Carolina, located in Clinton, Easley, and Ridgeland.

The pace continued into 2025. Acadia added three more CTCs in the third quarter of that year, and the network stretched a little further into communities that had been underserved. Each addition follows the same purpose: reach patients in areas where treatment options have been thin.

The economics help explain the steady buildout. Comprehensive Treatment Centers are outpatient sites rather than full hospitals, so they can be opened or acquired without the heavy capital a new inpatient facility demands. This makes the model one of the more scalable parts of the business, which matters when the underlying need keeps growing.

Reeve B. Waud founded Acadia Healthcare two decades ago and also leads Waud Capital Partners, the Chicago-based firm he founded in 1993. He doesn’t run the company day to day, but the outpatient strategy has become a defining feature of the business he started. As overdose deaths continue to strain communities, a treatment network that reaches over 70,000 patients daily gives the health system a wide footprint against a stubborn crisis.