“Medication Assisted Treatment, along with the appropriate group and one on one counseling, is one more tool in our addiction recovery tool box we are now providing inmates,” said Hampden Sheriff Nicholas Cocchi. (Essex and Suffolk counties later asked to join the program.)
The Hampden County Sheriff’s Department MAT initiative is part of a statewide pilot program established in 2018 by the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association to provide MAT at five county correctional facilities in the Commonwealth: Middlesex, Franklin, Norfolk, Hampden and Hampshire. In Hampden County, opioid overdose deaths increased 84 percent from 2017 to 2018, even as the rate of deaths declined in much of the rest of the state. It’s scalable and feasible elsewhere, and we are always willing to help other states implement similar programs.” “What we have accomplished in RIDOC has proven beneficial to the entire state.
“In the midst of our nation’s opioid epidemic, we are excited to be working with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department on this important step in advancing the message that addiction is a disease just like diabetes or cancer and evidence-based therapeutic approaches such as MAT should be available to all patients,” said Linda Hurley, President/CEO of CODAC. CODAC is now also licensed as an Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) provider in Massachusetts. The consensus best-practice approach for opioid-addiction treatment is MAT, and recent legislation in Massachusetts and other states has called for an increase in access to addiction medications for prisoners with a demonstrated need to help ease withdrawal symptoms and lower the risk of relapse when released.ĬODAC’s nationally praised MAT program with RIDOC was associated with a 61 percent decrease in post-incarceration deaths and contributed to an overall drop in overdose deaths statewide in RI, as reported by a Brown University study and published in JAMA Psychiatry. Nearly two-thirds of incarcerated people suffer from substance use disorders and, compared to the rest of the adult population, the opioid-related overdose death rate is 120 times higher for persons released from prisons and jails. CODAC, which worked with the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) in launching the nation’s first program to screen all inmates for opioid use disorder (OUD) and provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for those in need, has been selected by the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department to implement a similar program in Hampden County, MA at each of its correctional facilities. (PRWEB) September 10, 2019ĬODAC Behavioral Healthcare, the largest non-profit, outpatient provider for opioid treatment in Rhode Island, today announced the expansion of its services to treat addiction during incarceration to Hampden County, MA.
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