Daily News | In Camden, feds announce that states can soon use Medicaid to pay for addiction treatment in jail
to treat opioid addiction: methadone and buprenorphine, both opioid-based medications, and naltrexone, which blocks opioids from latching on to receptors in the brain.for substance use disorder and, if they ask for treatment, aims to get them on medication within 24 to 48 hours.
Withdrawing in jail also put them at higher risk for overdose when released: After a period of abstinence, people with “We’ve been able to fund these programs in 20 out of 21 counties,” said Sarah Adelman, the commissioner of the state Department of Human services. “But when we receive additional funding from the federal government, that could potentially cut our state investment by half or or thereabouts. It allows us to use those saved dollars to go farther and to do more.”
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