{"id":3567,"date":"2019-01-30T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3567"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:39:15","slug":"officials-expand-medication-assisted-treatment-as-they-tackle-opioid-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/news\/officials-expand-medication-assisted-treatment-as-they-tackle-opioid-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials expand medication-assisted treatment as they tackle opioid epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kywnewsradio.radio.com\/articles\/news\/philadelphia-officials-expand-medication-assisted-treatment-they-tackle-opioid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KYW Newsradio<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;January 30, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Philadelphia continues to struggle with the opioid epidemic, the behavioral health department has announced it will make medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, available to everyone who enters residential treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no cure for opioid addiction, but there is medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Commissioner Roland Lamb says it makes no more sense to deny addicted people the medication than it would to withhold treatment for diabetes or high blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fact is, this is the gold standard. It is what we have identified as a primary intervention when it comes to saving lives, when it comes to engaging people in treatment,\u201d Lamb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click to read the entire article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kywnewsradio.radio.com\/articles\/news\/philadelphia-officials-expand-medication-assisted-treatment-they-tackle-opioid\">Officials expand medication-assisted treatment as they tackle opioid epidemic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYW Newsradio&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;January 30, 2019 As Philadelphia continues to struggle with the opioid epidemic, the behavioral health department has announced it will make medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, available to everyone who enters residential treatment. There is no cure for opioid addiction, but there is medication. Deputy Commissioner Roland Lamb says it makes no more sense to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[40,102,42,192,107],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3567","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-addiction-and-recovery","tag-city-of-philadelphia","tag-dbhids","tag-medication-assisted-treatment","tag-opioids-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Officials expand medication-assisted treatment as they tackle opioid epidemic - DBHIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Officials expand medication-assisted treatment as they tackle opioid epidemic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KYW Newsradio&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;January 30, 2019 As Philadelphia continues to struggle with the opioid epidemic, the behavioral health department has announced it will make medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, available to everyone who enters residential treatment. 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