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DPH outlines behavioral health expansion: access center, medication treatment and naloxone distribution
Summary
DPH briefed commissioners on a behavioral health system strategy emphasizing access navigation, expansion of medication treatment (buprenorphine and methadone), growth in residential and recovery housing capacity and naloxone distribution, while acknowledging data and staffing gaps.
DPH gave a broad briefing on March 19 describing the city's behavioral health system, its goals and metrics to expand access and reduce overdose deaths.
The department reported about 100,000 annual connections to prevention, care and treatment and roughly 20,000 people served in specialty behavioral health programs. DPH said it has opened about 350 of the 400 planned residential treatment spots identified in its bed-utilization study and has expanded access points, including a behavioral health access center that is open seven days a week.
DPH highlighted efforts to increase availability and…
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