Akron’s Summit County has been on the front lines of Ohio’s opioid epidemic since 2015.

Summit County was one of the first Ohio counties to declare a public health emergency over the opioid crisis, and Akron has remained at the center ever since. The city has pioneered innovative harm reduction approaches, including the Summit County ADAMHS FIRST initiative, which embeds peer support specialists in ERs to create warm handoffs at the moment of crisis. Live Now Recovery extends that model citywide — every MAT provider, naloxone kiosk, and telehealth option in Summit County is mapped and updated in real time. Searching ‘buprenorphine clinic Akron’ or ‘addiction treatment near me Akron’ now surfaces real availability, not outdated directories. The platform’s 7-Attempts model tracks referral persistence — because Akron’s recovery community already knows that most people need more than one connection before treatment sticks. By digitizing the warm handoff and making it available anonymously at any hour, Live Now Recovery turns the phone in someone’s pocket into a lifeline.