Monday, May 12, 2025
5/12/2025
CPR: CT Promotes Recovery from Opioid Addiction - ABSTRACT: CT Promotes Recovery from Addiction (CPR) The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), in partnership with numerous State and community-based organizations, proposes to launch a series of targeted responses intended to reduce the negative impact of opioid use on Connecticut citizens and communities. These responses build on the state’s evolving recovery-oriented system of care, helping to continue to shift the focus of care from responding to acute episodes to a prevention and recovery management framework that spans community education and grassroots prevention coalitions, to pre-recovery outreach and engagement, to recovery initiation through active treatment and recovery supports services, to long-term recovery maintenance. Many initiatives that were begun with State Targeted Response (STR) funds will be continued with these State Opioid Response (SOR) funds. Proposed activities include: • Expansive prevention and early intervention activities resulting in every Connecticut community being able to benefit from the proposed activities; • Increasing availability of clinic-based medication-assisted treatment (MAT); • Partnering recovery coaches with hospital emergency departments to initiate MAT and provide on-going recovery support; • Supporting existing behavioral health treatment programs by expanding their ability to utilize evidence-based practices and enhance their recovery supports; • Providing vouchers for treatment for individuals with limited income or insurance gaps; • Expanding recovery support services for young adult opioid users and their families; • Providing MAT to pre-release Department of Correction inmates; • Supporting courts with diversion and treatment for arrestees with substance use disorders; • Supporting municipal police departments with two urban-based Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) teams; • Expanding faith-based recovery support; and • Creating eight “How Can I Help?” community response teams in hard-hit areas that will offer follow-up contact with overdose survivors and in-home support to affected families. Connecticut maintains considerable momentum to implement these projects. Community awareness of opioid problems has galvanized local, grass-roots groups into action. Community coalitions including local government leaders, health professionals, educators, police, and behavioral health experts have formed to address this epidemic. The legislatively mandated Connecticut Alcohol and Drug Policy Council (ADPC) continues to support recommendations developed by subcommittees in the areas of Prevention, Treatment, Recovery and Criminal Justice. Numerous proposed SOR projects are a result of the Council’s work. These new SAMHSA resources are crucial in order to support and implement the hard work of these groups.
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