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Hamilton County launches in-home overdose-prevention pilot using opioid settlement funds
Summary
Hamilton County announced a pilot Hamilton County EMS Overdose Prevention Team to deliver in-home medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as a 5–7 day bridge to community care, funded from opioid settlement dollars and coordinated with the Health Department and community partners.
Hamilton County officials presented a new EMS-based overdose-prevention pilot on March 25 that will send a paramedic and a peer-support specialist into homes to provide short-term medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and connect residents to community recovery services.
Christy Cooper, who introduced the program to the commission, said the mission is “to reduce overdose deaths and chronic substance use disorder in Hamilton County by providing medication-assisted treatment in the home to any willing participant at no cost with personalized connections to local resources for recovery.” She described the pilot as the first program of its kind approved to run in Tennessee and said the county’s medical director, Dr. Ron Bucheit, drafted the clinical protocols and secured…
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