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State opioid intervention court team proposes rapid-response court for Columbia County
Summary
New York State Unified Court System staff presented a pre-plea opioid intervention court model to Columbia County supervisors, saying federal and state grant funding would cover startup costs and that a development workshop is set for June 23.
Susan McCaffrey, a statewide opioid court project director with the New York State Unified Court System, told Columbia County supervisors on May 20 that the system is seeking to establish an opioid intervention court in Columbia County using federal grant funds and state resources.
McCaffrey said the opioid intervention court is a pre-plea, voluntary triage model designed to stabilize people at high risk of overdose immediately after arraignment. “We were just looking to do that immediate intervention to connect folks to critical life saving care at the point of arraignment,” she said.
The model grew from a 2016 pilot in Buffalo and was later evaluated with independent researchers. McCaffrey summarized the results: participants in the intervention court were, in the study cited, half as likely to die within one year as comparable…
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