The Modoc Nation’s Lost River Treatment Center will implement their Medication Assisted Treatment program within Ottawa County and throughout the four-state area of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. The main goals of the Lost River Treatment Center’s (LRTC) MAT program are to increase the number of individuals with OUDs receiving MAT through increased capacity, foster inter-agency collaboration across a broad network of social services, and improve quality of life of MAT patients through a decrease in illicit and prescription opioid misuse.
As a licensed center with a full array of medical and behavioral health services, LRTC has a history of providing integrated care to Natives, Non-Natives and their families seeking assistance. Tribe recognizes that there is a need for additional supportive services, especially to treat rurally located and lower income patients. The solution sought here is the development of a systematic recovery support program that assists clients in meeting their basic needs, promotes sober and healthy living as the norm, individual responsibility is accepted by the community, and an overall decrease in overdoses from heroin and opioids.
Our program is under the direction of Dr. Jack Doney, our X-Waivered Chief Medical Director, who oversees the medical management components in addition to a team comprised of a Director of Behavioral Health, MAT Program Director, three LPNs, a LCSW, a LMSW, three counselors, three Peer Recovery Specialists, and two transportation coordinators. This dynamic team manages the on-going treatment, outreach, support, and access components of the project.
Our treatment regimen for MAT services adheres to the evidence-based National Practice Guidelines from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Our clinic operates as an Office-Based Opioid Treatment Clinic that relies on a collaborative care model overseen by a director of behavioral health. To increase the capacity of our tribe to address our opioid crisis long-term and consistent with the Modoc Nation’s commitment to sustainable development, we have adopted a Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC). The ROSC is realized through improving the collaboration and communication between local medical, behavioral health, prevention, and career services departments. The ROSC supports our MAT efforts with added components of outreach, development of recovery support and telehealth services, formal collaborations, community education to reduce stigma, and professional workforce development.
