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Bill would use opioid‑settlement fund to expand medication‑assisted treatment for problem‑solving courts
Summary
Sen. Dan Quick introduced LB255 to appropriate opioid settlement infrastructure funds to help problem‑solving courts provide medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) to qualifying participants who lack immediate access to Medicaid‑covered care.
Senator Dan Quick introduced LB255, which would appropriate funds from the Nebraska opioid treatment infrastructure cash fund to support medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) for qualifying participants in problem‑solving courts, including adult drug courts and other specialty courts.
Quick described MAT as the evidence‑based combination of FDA‑approved medications with counseling and behavioral therapies that reduces opioid overdose deaths, illicit opioid use and criminal activity and improves treatment retention. He said the bill would make $1,000,000 (as introduced) available to problem‑solving courts to finance MAT for justice‑involved individuals who may not immediately be eligible for Medicaid services following release.
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