Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment in Newberry, SC
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and counseling for adults in Newberry, by telehealth with in-person visits in West Ashley.
Hope Integrative Medicine treats alcohol use disorder for adults in Newberry and across Newberry County with medication-assisted treatment (MAT), counseling and regular follow-up. Visits can be by secure video from home, and in-person visits, including Vivitrol injections, are at our West Ashley office in Charleston.
How Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Works
Care starts with a full evaluation, and treatment combines medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with counseling and regular follow-up. There is no single right medication for everyone. Your provider walks you through the options, and together you choose the treatment that fits your health, your goals and your other medicines, based on shared decision-making and a careful look at the risks and benefits of each option. Whether withdrawal can be managed safely as an outpatient is decided at your evaluation. When the risk of severe withdrawal is high, we help arrange a higher level of care. Stopping heavy daily drinking suddenly can cause seizures or delirium tremens, which can be fatal. Talk to a clinician before stopping, and call 911 for confusion, hallucinations or a seizure. Read our full guide to alcohol use disorder treatment in South Carolina.
Health and Care in Newberry
Newberry College was chartered in 1856 by the South Carolina Lutheran Synod and returned to Newberry in 1877 after years in Walhalla. (Source: South Carolina Encyclopedia)
Manufacturing makes up about 30 percent of jobs in Newberry County, with large appliance, food and equipment plants. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025)
Samsung opened its first U.S. home appliance plant in Newberry and, by June 2022, had hired more than 1,500 local workers. (Source: newberryobserver.com)
Newberry County lies outside any metropolitan area, between Columbia and the Upstate. (Source: citypopulation.de)
An estimated 14.8 percent of adults in Newberry report binge drinking, compared with 15.4 percent across Newberry County.
An estimated 41.5 percent of adults in Newberry have been told they have high blood pressure, compared with 42.4 percent across Newberry County.
An estimated 25.1 percent of adults in Newberry rate their health as fair or poor, compared with 22.2 percent across Newberry County.
An estimated 34.8 percent of adults in Newberry report loneliness, compared with 31.8 percent across Newberry County.
Sources: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (model-based estimates from 2022 and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data); CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022 (age-adjusted), via County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025; Fatality Analysis Reporting System, 2018 to 2022, via County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025.
Did You Know? Life in Newberry
The Newberry Opera House, dedicated in 1882, originally held the fire engine room, council chambers and police station on its first floor. (Source: newberryoperahouse.com)
Alcohol Use Disorder Questions from Newberry
About 20.1 percent of adults in Newberry County report excessive drinking, meaning binge or heavy drinking, compared with 19.9 percent across South Carolina.
Alcohol was involved in about 37.9 percent of driving deaths in Newberry County from 2018 to 2022, compared with 33.3 percent across South Carolina.
An estimated 15.8 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 in Newberry have no health insurance, compared with 13.2 percent across Newberry County.
Insurance We Accept
Commercial, ACA & Medicare
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Cigna
- United Healthcare
- Curative
- Centene (Ambetter / Wellcare)
- Humana
- Molina
- Medicare
South Carolina Medicaid
We accept all SC Medicaid managed care plans except Select Health (First Choice).
- Absolute Total Care (Centene)
- BlueChoice HealthPlan (Healthy Blue)
- Humana Healthy Horizons in SC
- Molina Healthcare of SC
- WellCare of SC
- Meridian Health Plan of SC
Self-pay rates are also available.
Licensed in South Carolina
All Hope Integrative Medicine providers are licensed in South Carolina and authorized to treat patients statewide via telehealth.
Suzanne Echemendia-Wirth, MD
Medical Director
Jessica Ace, MSN, FNP-C, CEN
Family Nurse Practitioner
Andrea Rizzetto, MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC
Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Rhonda Witt, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Ashley Royer, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CCRN
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Kassi Goodman, PhD, LAC, LPC, ICADC, NBCFCH
Licensed Counselor & Addiction Specialist