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Provider proposes grant-funded mobile opioid treatment units for Hocking County
Summary
Joshua Becker of Anchor Addiction and Wellness told commissioners the group plans two grant-funded mobile opioid treatment units to serve Appalachian counties, offering medication, urine screening, telehealth and case management; the program is pending DEA clearance and asks for no county funds.
Joshua Becker, who said he represents Anchor Addiction and Wellness Center, told the Hocking County commissioners on April 30 that his organization plans to launch two mobile opioid treatment units to serve Appalachian and other underserved counties.
Becker said each unit will staff a nurse practitioner and two nurses, provide medical exams, medication-assisted treatment, urine screening sent to a laboratory, case management and telehealth counseling. “We will be launching and operating Ohio's first mobile opioid treatment units,” Becker said, adding the units will dispense…
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