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The Healing Place men's campus provides food, shelter, clothing, and recovery services to 250 men a day. Services are provided at no cost to the client. A majority of people there have struggled with heroin and fentenal abuse. Twenty-eight years ago, when the center first opened, people were primarily there for alcohol and cocaine recovery.



Because of lack of beds, The Healing Place is having to turn away an average of 300 men from detox every month.



"We actually had one man who is here with us now, who literally slept in a ditch behind our building for two weeks waiting to get in a bed," said Hascall.



The addiction recovery center has helped people like Roy Sherrill. "I've used every kind of drug known to man," said Sherrill. "My number one was heroin."



Sherrill started abusing drugs at age 16. He's now 30 years old and earlier this year realized his life needed to change.



"Waking up one day in the passenger seat of somebody's car and been there for two weeks and I just realized how pitiful my life had become," said Sherrill. "My father didn't raise me to become that."



Sherrill went to The Healing Place in May.



"I come staggering in, praying to God for another way," Sherrill said. "I had to wait a couple weeks to get in."



Sherrill has been clean for the past seven months and is a peer mentor, helping others who have struggled like him.



"It's like I've been reborn," Sherrill said. "Let em know I did it, you can do it too and I'm here with it every day."