An Eastern Kentucky hospital is launching a new drug rehabilitation program that's taking a unique approach to treating addiction by making music part of recovery.

Pine Vale Community Health Center says the approach was inspired by one of the program's partners struggle.

Jennings, a country music artist and grandson on of country music legend Waylon Jennings.

As Struggle tells us, music saved him from addiction and believes it will help others with their sobriety.

The program's super, super special.

The reason we named it sound sobriety is it's kind of a play on words as well as, you know, you have to be sound in your sobriety, right?

Affirm and strong and build a good foundation as well as the musical aspect.

So what we're doing is we're bringing a lot of artists in.

We're going to bring some of the biggest songwriters in the world, some of the biggest artists in the world that we've already got lined up to come in and talk and tell their story and not only tell their story, but teach the people how to use song.

So, you know, write their lives and write what they've been through.

And we're also going to make sure that every one of them leaves oh, registered songwriter to be BMI so that they'll be able to pitch their songs as they leave, which is also just gives that extra glimmer of hope, you know, like just something else that they can hold on to and something else that they can have set a goal and a dream.

You know, it's been such a therapy for me, and it was one of the biggest things that helped me in my growth and my transition, being able to get that out and word and being able to get, you know, write out all my feelings and put my story out there, you know.

Bell County, where we live, it is truly an epidemic.

It's the definition of an epidemic with substance use and abuse.

These are hardcore drugs we're talking about.

The facility is inside Pikeville Community Health Center and and Pinedale Community Health Center is now a hospital that is on the uptick and it's thriving.

It's this community is excited about what we're doing.

We will have a detox program, an acute detox medical detox.

So we will have the 28 day and then they'll go to a step down program, which is called an intensive outpatient program.

But we want to be there to help them with job placement or obtain their G.E.D.

and do things like that.

There's some staff members here that have been affected by the use of illicit drugs and other things that it hits close to home.

I was also an addict for a long time.

I lost mother my kids to a drug overdose.

The father took my kids to an overdose.

Mother in law to an overdose.

Father in law to an overdose.

Two of my kid's uncles to overdoses.

And the list goes on.

So this has been a passion of mine since I turned my life around roughly ten, 12 years ago.

We're all in this together.

And I just I feel like this program is going to be incredible.

I think it's going to be a huge success.

And what I mean by success is I think a lot of lives are going to change.

I don't think it's going to trickle down, you know, from one person clean and sober.

It affects 20.

I think that we will definitely change a lot of statistics.

I think we're going to change the rate of recidivism.

I think we're going to change the rate of relapse.

I want to make a dent not only in Pontville.

We're going to start in Pontville, but I want to make a dent in the country.

Struggle.

Jennings says he will be at the ribbon cutting ceremony for sound sobriety on May 22nd.

He then plans to stick around Pine Vault to perform at the Kentucky Mt.

Laurel Festival on May 23rd.