About
About Johnston Recovery Services
Johnston Recovery Services is the Johnston County clinic in the Morse Clinics network of opioid treatment programs across North Carolina. Located at 1699 Old U.S. Highway 70 West in Clayton, the clinic provides accessible outpatient opioid use disorder care to residents of Clayton, Smithfield, Garner, and surrounding communities along the I-40 corridor southeast of Raleigh. The Morse Clinics organization was founded by Dr. Eric Morse, MD, who leads the network’s medical and clinical strategy.
Clinically, the program centers on Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) paired with counseling. The clinic provides methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone, Sublocade and Brixadi (long-acting injectable buprenorphine), and Vivitrol (long-acting injectable naltrexone). This breadth of medication options is meaningful: it allows clinicians to match treatment to the patient’s clinical situation rather than fit every patient into a single drug protocol. Counseling – both individual and group formats – runs alongside medication, with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as the primary modality and trauma-informed approaches available for patients with PTSD or trauma histories.
The Clayton clinic treats opioid use disorder broadly: dependence on prescription pain medications, heroin, and fentanyl all fall within scope. Pregnant women are accepted as a priority population, with appropriate coordination of obstetric care during MOUD treatment. Johnston Recovery accepts Medicaid, Medicare, state insurance, and self-pay, with a sliding fee scale available for clients who qualify – structural decisions that reduce cost barriers to a community treatment that often suffers from limited access.
Johnston Recovery is CARF-accredited and certified as an Opioid Treatment Program. Across the Morse Clinics network, 2025 impact figures include 3,402 lives enriched, 1,909 current patients in treatment, more than 1.4 million life-saving medication doses dispensed, and 44,268 treatment sessions completed. New patients can call (919) 359-1699 to begin the intake process. Google reviews currently average 4.4 across 34 reviews.
- Certified Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) specializing exclusively in opioid detox and withdrawal management
- CARF-accredited medical detox facility with MD oversight from Dr. Eric Morse
- Specialized fentanyl and heroin detox protocols for high-risk opioid withdrawal
- Early morning operating hours (5:30 AM start) accommodating work schedules during detox
- Pregnancy-safe opioid detox programs for expecting mothers