Dr. James A. Turner, DO at 410 North 2nd Street, Marshall, Illinois.

I was hopelessly addicted to prescription painkillers for five years (starting when I was 18). I weighed 320 pounds and my excessive weight began causing SEVERE back pain. My doctor at the time eventually gave me 120 7.5 hydrocodones a month.
Long story short, two years down the line I was getting a total of 360 lortabs from three different doctors (The DEA was much more lazy back then), and yet I still ran out early each month and had to purchase the difference off the streets.
When I ran out (and couldn't find anyone willing to sell them), I couldn't function. Within one day of withdrawal I felt as though my blood was boiling in my veins, my legs could scarcely bear the weight of my own body. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, the pain was more agonizing than you can imagine. I would miss so much work I would get fired. I lost my job, my home, and my car. Everything I had worked for vanished over night. My life was in shambles and despite how hard I tried to get clean, I couldn't. I always relapsed. I looked and looked for help, but no doctor would take the time to listen. I lost all hope, I was certain I would remain enslaved to my addiction until it finally put me in an early grave. And I was a SLAVE. I felt I would never be able to do any of the things I had dreamed of since I was a child. For I would not live long enough to see them to fruition. I was wasting the one and only life I would ever get to live.
I was about to give up entirely when I took a wild shot in the dark and asked my father if he knew anyone who could help me. To my utmost surprise, a friend of his referred him to Dr. Turner. I immediately scheduled an appointment. Although, I was so close to getting help, after years of being turned away I was almost certain it would happen once more.
The day of my appointment I was ushered into an exam room where the assisting nurse recorded all my information. It was then she realized I was not a resident of Clark county and per Union policy I was therefore ineligible for Turner's Suboxone program. The revelation knocked the wind out of me. I told her I knew something would bar me from getting the help I so desperately needed. However, unlike ANY of the 19 physicians I had gone to seeking treatment, Dr. Turner actually came into the room and spoke with me privately.
I told him my story. I told him how badly I wanted to get better. I told him I couldn't even perform the most mundane tasks without taking pain pills like putting on my socks. I literally could not summon the strength to put on a pair of socks while in withdrawal. It was then that Dr. Turner, unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, kept faith with the oath he pledged and took me in.
With the help of Dr. Turner I was not only able to get off the pills and get my old life back but he gave me the support and motivation I needed to lose all my weight. Dr. Turner is one of the most, if not the most compassionate person I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. I don't know where I'd be today without him, if anywhere at all. I guarantee you, you will not find a doctor who truly cares more about your well being than Dr. Turner, nor anyone more willing to listen to what YOU have to say. Out of all of the many, many doctors I have seen in the past, Doctor Turner soars above the rest.