Addiction is a family illness. It hurts family relationships. The good news is that through recovery, families are able to heal together from drug and alcohol addiction.
No one knows families like Willingway. Our treatment center was founded by a family and has been continuously striving to love its clients like family for 50 years.
Ask yourself the questions below that may indicate that your loved one has a problem:
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, there may be a problem with alcohol or drugs. Please call us for a consultation on how to help your loved one.
Professional intervention can be a positive motivator for a person to get addiction treatment. Willingway works closely with a number of certified professional interventionists. Visit our Interventions page to find out more.
When your loved one enters the treatment center at Willingway, they begin a process of healing that can be challenging as well as rewarding. Recovery begins with hard work and an open mind to understand more about alcohol and drug addiction and how it can destroy lives.
You should expect to see some changes in behaviors, attitudes, and feelings in your loved one. You will also see close bonds that have developed between clients during rehab and their desire to help each other shed light on recovery issues. This is part of what is unique about the caring, family recovery atmosphere Willingway offers through its addiction treatment program.
From Atlanta
Take I-75 South to Macon. In Macon, take I-16 east towards Savannah. You will take the first Statesboro exit (# 116, Hwy 301) off I-16. When coming into Statesboro, you will turn right at the intersection of Hwy 301 and the US Hwy 301 Bypass / Veterans Memorial Parkway. This intersection has a Texaco gas station with a Subway on your left, a church on your right and another gas station on the north right hand corner. Turn RIGHT onto the bypass. You will pass four traffic lights. At the fourth light, you will see an IHOP and Lowe’s Home Improvement on your right. Go STRAIGHT through this light. You will turn LEFT onto Jones Mill Road at the next intersection with no light.
Willingway will be on your right. If you are coming for a family visit, use the first entrance and the family entrance is the small parking lot to the left of the live oak tree with bench below. If you are coming for an admission or an assessment, use the second entrance and ring the doorbell under the covered walkway.
From Savannah
Take I-16 west, towards Macon, to Exit 127, Hwy 67. When coming into Statesboro, turn RIGHT at the second traffic light onto US Hwy 301 by-pass / Veterans Memorial Parkway. You will travel about 2 miles around a large curve. At the second traffic light, you will see an IHOP and Lowe’s Home Improvement on your right. Go STRAIGHT through this light. You will turn LEFT onto Jones Mill Road at the next intersection with no light.
Willingway will be on your right. If you are coming for a family visit, use the first entrance and the family entrance is the small parking lot to the left of the live oak tree with bench below. If you are coming for an admission or an assessment, use the second entrance and ring the doorbell under the covered walkway.
From Augusta
Take Hwy 25 South. It will merge with Hwy 80. In Statesboro, follow Hwy 80 (Northside Dr.) through town. At the intersection of Hwy 80 and Lester Road, you will turn LEFT. This intersection has a traffic light, Wachovia Bank, Walgreens,Rite-Aid and an Enmark gas station. Just past the high school, at Mill Run apartments, turn RIGHT. Willingway Hospital will be on the left, just after the nursing home.
If you are coming for a family visit, use the second entrance and the family entrance is the small parking lot to the left of the live oak tree with bench below. If you are coming for an admission or an assessment, use the first entrance and ring the doorbell under the covered walkway.
From Hwy 301 South
When coming into Statesboro you will turn right at the intersection of Hwy 301 and the US Hwy 301 Bypass / Veterans Memorial Parkway. This intersection has a Texaco gas station with a Subway on your left; a church on your right and another gas station on the north right hand corner. Turn RIGHT onto the bypass. You will pass four traffic lights. At the fourth light, you will see an IHOP and Lowe’s Home Improvement on your right. Go STRAIGHT through this light. You will turn LEFT onto Jones Mill Road at the next intersection with no light.
Willingway will be on your right. If you are coming for a family visit, use the first entrance and the family entrance is the small parking lot to the left of the live oak tree with bench below. If you are coming for an admission or an assessment, use the second entrance and ring the doorbell under the covered walkway.
From Hwy 67 South (I-16, exit 127)
When coming into Statesboro, turn RIGHT at the second traffic light onto US Hwy 301 by-pass / Veterans Memorial Parkway. You will travel about 2 miles around a large curve. At the second traffic light, you will see an IHOP and Lowe’s Home Improvement on your right. Go STRAIGHT through this light. You will turn LEFT onto Jones Mill Road at the next intersection with no light.
Willingway will be on your right. If you are coming for a family visit, use the first entrance and the family entrance is the small parking lot to the left of the live oak tree with bench below. If you are coming for an admission or an assessment, use the second entrance and ring the doorbell under the covered walkway.
From Hwy 301 North
Look for the National Guard Armory on your left. Go approximately 1.5 miles to the caution light at the intersection of Hwy 301 North and the Hwy 301 Bypass / Veterans Memorial Parkway. (There is a gas station on the left corner). Turn LEFT onto the bypass. You will go straight through the traffic light. At the next intersection (no light) you will turn RIGHT onto Jones Mill Road.
Willingway will be on your right. If you are coming for a family visit, use the first entrance and the family entrance is the small parking lot to the left of the live oak tree with bench below. If you are coming for an admission or an assessment, use the second entrance and ring the doorbell under the covered walkway.
Hotels in Statesboro, GA
Best Western: 912-681-7900
Comfort Inn: 912-681-2400
Georgia’s B&B: 912-489-6330
Hampton Inn: 912-489-8989
Holiday Inn: 912-489-4545 (corporate rate of $89 per night)
Springhill Suites: 912-489-0000 (corporate rate of $89 per night – suite)
Statesboro Inn: 912-489-8628
Hotels near Savannah Airport
Please consider your flight times – Savannah/Hilton Head Island International Airport is about a 45-minute drive from Willingway.
Cambria Suites: 877-424-6423
Comfort Inn & Suites: 912-629-1500
Hilton Garden Inn: 912-964-5550
Spring Hill Suites: 888-287-9400
Colonial House of Flowers: 912-764-6097
Frazier’s Flowers & Gifts: 800-205-0612
Southern Creations: 888-739-5901
“When I got to Willingway I had been living on the streets of LA for almost a year. I had nothing. I have a life today that far exceeds any dream that broken junkie could ever imagine. My daughter has her mother back, my mother has her daughter. None of this would be if it were not for Willingway and its unique way of helping people heal. There is a part of me that will always be in Statesboro GA, my heart.”
“All I can say is that family week a decade ago healed rifts that were old and deep and seemed insurmountable without outside interference and involvement.”
Thanks to Connie’s insistence on a few things that seemed silly, unmanly, and extremely embarrassing at the time my father and I buried the hatchet on a few things. He and my mother passed away 9 months later unexpectedly in an accident. Unlike other members of my family, I was content with where our relationship was, and while I missed saying goodbye and all that good stuff I was able to mourn and move on – no drugs or alcohol required.”
Because addiction is a family disease, we strongly encourage family members get involved with their own recovery by attending Al-Anon, which is a 12-step group that provides support for family members, and Willingway's Continuing Care meetings, which are held in numerous cities and states:
Al-Anon
(Support for Family Members)
(888) 4ALANON
(888) 425-2666
www.al-anon.org
Continuing Care Meetings
Willingway-hosted meetings you can attend while in your hometown.
Click here for a full list of meeting cities and times.
