Thirteen years ago, Adam Comer walked through the doors of Spring 2 Life Recovery needing help.

Today, he’s the CEO.

As the Christian-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center grows, Adam is working with Dow Smith Company to build a 26-bed facility on its 10-acre McMinnville campus.

“It’s been awesome,” Adam says on the newest episode of our From The Ground Up podcast. “It’s been eye-opening. I’ve never done something like this before. I feel very informed.”

Since Spring 2 Life was founded in 2006, it has grown rapidly. It currently has four campuses in Middle Tennessee and Adam says people from all over the country are flying into Nashville to receive treatment at S2L.

“I really believe that this building we’re about to break ground on is just the beginning,” Adam says. “We really believe in the mission that we’re doing that from the rooms of recovery will come the revival of a nation.”

At S2L, patients receive a personal approach that includes medical detox when necessary, a 42-day program that is considered a phase one with the option of another 42 days as phase two. They offer classes five days a week and have 50 staff members on staff, including a doctor, therapists, nurses, and recovery coaches.

“In my opinion, it’s radically different,” Adam says. “I can say that from experience. I went to a lot of secular rehabs and things like that with a decade and a half of opioid addiction.”

In 2020, S2L got licensed and received a joint commission accreditation so it can accept insurance. Adam says this came at a critical time as COVID-19 kept many people at home, drinking and using drugs more frequently.

“The statistics say that there are so many Americans who have addiction and a very small percentage are getting help,” Adam says. “A part of the need of why we’re building this new facility is because we need more beds. The need is there. And when you turn people away in this type of situation, it could be life or death. Hearing a mom cry who is trying to get her son in or a child trying to get their father into the program, that is not fun to hear.”

 Adam says working with Dow Smith Company on this project will allow S2L to continue to grow at a critical time in the nonprofit’s mission to help more people.

“There’s a pre-construction phase and there’s just so much that went into that that I didn’t know. Site work, soils, whatever. And now we’re at the end of that and everything’s been approved. But now we’re at the construction phase that we’re about to break ground on. Anything from concrete to mason work to whatever you can imagine in construction, Dow Smith has gone to two to three different (sub)contractors and gotten bids for us. Even that alone, that’s awesome and reassuring but the manpower, the time, the energy it would’ve taken us just to do that … It’s been a cool process and I feel very taken care of. The reputation in our area of Dow Smith is impeccable.

To learn more about S2L, log on to www.s2lrecovery.org or listen to their podcast “Life After Addiction” on YouTube. Check out S2L’s episode on the From the Ground Up podcast below.