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Horry County presents coordinated behavioral-health, harm-reduction updates and proposes mobile MAT pilot
Summary
County behavioral-services leaders, jail staff, police and fire-rescue officials briefed council on coordinated responses to substance use and mental-health crises, reported program metrics and outlined a proposed mobile medication-assisted-treatment pilot to deliver buprenorphine in the field.
Horry County officials on Sept. 9 gave the county council a cross-agency progress report on behavioral health and harm reduction, laying out service volumes, program expansions and a proposal for a mobile medication-assisted-treatment (MAT) pilot.
The county’s behavioral services office, newly staffed with a community engagement coordinator and a strategic coordinator, described its role as a central coordinator to remove barriers for providers and to measure success by lived experience. "Our plan is to meet with service providers, community members with lived experience, and other key stakeholders so that we can really identify our current baseline," the department representative said.
Marcus Rhodes of the J. Reuben Long Detention Center described the jail’s Next Steps team, a multidisciplinary collaboration of peer-support specialists, counselors, corrections personnel and community providers. Rhodes said 73 incarcerated individuals were currently engaged in in-custody recovery…
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