Friday, April 25, 2025
4/25/2025
Targeted Capacity Expansion: Medication Assisted Treatment-Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) - Creative Health Services, Inc. of Pottstown, Montgomery County, PA, is a community behavioral health center that "provides quality behavioral healthcare designed to empower and promote wellness for individuals, families and communities." With our current infrastructure, which includes the region's largest public assessment and case management center for substance abuse disorders along with existing outpatient and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment services, experience and strong community ties, we are equipped to begin this project immediately to extend full MAT services of administering Buprenorphine and Naltrexone in combination with comprehensive Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) psychosocial services to: 150 patients by 9/29/2019; to 250 patients by 9/29/2020; and to 350 patients by 9/29/2021 and to affect and track a decrease in illicit opioid drug use and prescription opioid misuse at a six-month follow-up during the length of this project, September 30, 2018-September 29, 2021. Our population of focus includes: adults 18 or older who meet DSM 5 criteria for OUD; persons under 18 who meet DSM 5 criteria and Federal Guidelines for participation in MAT maintenance; and person's suffering from OUD who meet program eligibility, as determined by an identified physician per a substance abuse history review and patient interview; the maternal dependency population consists of pregnant or mothering females, regardless of age, with a documented history of OUD who may return to narcotic dependency, may be placed on a comprehensive maintenance regimen; and patients with OUD co-occurring with mental health or another Substance Use Disorder (SUD). We will continue with MAT related activities already existing as we, as part of our substance abuse operations: provide MAT services; check PDMP via assessment at admission for OUD relative to MAT; screen/assess for co-occurring and delivery/coordination of needed services; provide outreach and engagement; Warm Hand-Off Team embedded in the local Emergency Department, Opioid Overdose Survivor Engagement Team through 9/29/2021. Noted increases in illicit opioid drug use /prescription opioid misuse at six-month follow up checks will be monitored through routine UDS screenings and scores on the assessment tools (DAST, CAGE, Audit, and/ or NIDA) from 9/30/2018-9/29/2021.An Advisory Committee will be developed by October 2018 informing a robust QA/QI plan incorporating data collection and reporting activities by 1/2019.
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