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Providers and residents sound alarm on behavioral-health funding, methadone clinic distribution and overdose prevention
Summary
Multiple providers, recovery-home operators and neighborhood residents testified at a Baltimore City Council committee orientation that funding disruptions, clinic distribution and disagreements over safe injection sites require immediate oversight and coordinated policy responses.
At an orientation meeting of the Baltimore City Council Public Health and Environment Committee, treatment providers, recovery-home operators and residents urged the committee to prioritize legislative oversight of behavioral-health funding, the distribution of medication-assisted-treatment services and neighborhood impacts from treatment centers.
Damon Marshall, co-owner and CEO of New Wave Health Services, and Angel Brown, the company’s co-owner and chief operating officer, said providers are sounding the alarm about a “freeze” in payments and looming Medicaid cuts that could force beds and services offline. Brown testified, “Right now, our city is in crisis…
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