{"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 [&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) - 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