Rise Again
Icarus was a tragic character in Greek mythology. He was born into a trap, just like his family. His father crafted a set of wings for him to escape, but warned him to take the middle path to freedom. Too high and he’d be scorched by the sun. Too low and he’d drown in the ocean. But as he tasted the thrill of flying, Icarus became reckless. He flew too close to the sun, burned, and fell to his death.
Sound familiar? At Icarus Addiction Care, we’re here to change the story.
We empower patients to control their addiction.
With Icarus, they can rise again.
Change the Narrative
Icarus Addiction Care is a medical consultation service for patients with addiction in Nashville, Tennessee. We work with every addiction, every day, and every treatment philosophy. We assume the risk, difficulty, and stigma of treating addiction because we want our patients to succeed both during and after their hospitalization.
Our namesake, Icarus, was born into a challenging environment and made bad decisions as he sought to escape. But with help he could have taken a better path. Icarus Addiction Care was birthed from a desire to break addiction cycles that have similar tragic endings. Our team has worked in addiction care for many years in clinics, ERs, telehealth, and hospitals. We’re here to walk with your patients through every step.
The Old System is Broken
In 2014, US life expectancy began decreasing for the first time in decades, largely because of addiction (1). Drug overdose deaths went up 30% in 2020 alone, and another 15% in 2021 to top 100,000 for the first time ever (2). Yet despite this crisis, addiction is often ignored, demonized, or undertreated in hospitals. That’s unacceptable.
Addiction consult services like Icarus have been shown to increase hospitalized patients’ engagement in treatment by 111% (3), increase days of abstinence by 126% (4), and decrease 30-day readmissions by 39% (5).
We follow the latest evidence to give our patients cutting-edge addiction care.
Bring in the new
It’s time for your patients to get better care for their addiction, and we want to help!
We offer specialty addiction consultations with both recommendations and order entry, induction on niche medications such as buprenorphine, and prescriptions upon discharge. Our team will also handle case management, including the coordination of and referral to post-hospital care.
Our services are free to hospitals and physicians. Service fees will be billed to patients or third-party payers such as private insurance or TennCare (Medicaid). Working with us will actually save you money!
Why is addiction care so challenging?
It brings stigma, frustration, and legal risk for providers. |
It requires coordinating a bewildering patchwork of resources. |
It involves high rates of failure, which burdens healthcare systems. |
It brings stigma, frustration, and sometimes even legal risk for providers. |
It requires coordinating many specialized resources that can seem overwhelming. |
It involves high rates of treatment failure, which is burdensome for healthcare systems. |
At Icarus, we tackle all of these challenges so you don’t have to. We provide patient-centered, evidence-based, addiction-specific consults that go beyond the current standard of care.
It’s our mission to empower patients to control their addiction.
Meet Our Team
Jacob Radford, MD is the founder and CEO of Icarus. He was born and raised in Kentucky where he attended college, medical school, and emergency medicine residency at the University of Kentucky. He has been practicing emergency medicine in a Nashville ER since 2013, and he has also worked in an outpatient addiction clinic. The failures he saw in the ER motivated him to create a better addiction care system, so he founded Icarus Addiction Care in 2021.
Michael Hayoun, MD, MPhil is the Chief Medical Officer of Icarus. He was born and raised in New Jersey. He attended the University of Cambridge on a Gates Scholarship for his masters, Rutgers University for medical school, and Einstein Health Network in Philadelphia for emergency medicine residency. Dr. Hayoun's interest in addiction medicine blossomed in his medical toxicology fellowship where he ran inpatient addiction and medical toxicology services at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA.