{"id":25544,"date":"2019-06-17T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-awards-summit-county-60000-for-opioid-treatment-services-in-jail\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:40:00","slug":"colorado-awards-summit-county-60000-for-opioid-treatment-services-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/colorado-awards-summit-county-60000-for-opioid-treatment-services-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado awards Summit County $60,000 for opioid treatment services in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Summit County Sheriff’s Office received a grant earlier this month to help treat opioid use disorder at the Summit County Detentions Facility.<\/strong>
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The Colorado Department of Human Services\u2019 Office of Behavioral Health has awarded funding to the Summit County Detentions Facility in order to help fund opioid treatment in the jail.<\/p>\n

The department awarded nearly $1.9 million earlier this month to 17 county sheriff\u2019s offices that applied for medication-assisted treatment funding \u2014 a combination of medication and behavioral therapy that\u2019s considered the most effective way to treat opioid-use disorder. Summit County will receive a $60,000 grant for the program.<\/p>\n

To this point, the department had funded similar treatment services in five of the 17 counties: Denver, Boulder, Douglass, Jefferson and Pueblo. Almost 500 individuals have received medication-assisted treatment before or upon release from jail through the fund since 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Colorado, we continue to increase the availability of MAT services statewide for those who need it, including treatment for people who are incarcerated, in many paces as a result of their addiction,\u201d Office of Behavioral Health director Robert Werthwein said. \u201cWe know that the risk of opioid overdose drastically increases after a period of abstinence, such as incarceration, and intervening at this juncture is key to our efforts to reduce overdoses.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Summit County Sheriff’s Office received a grant earlier this month to help treat opioid use disorder at the Summit County Detentions Facility.File via AP | AP The Colorado Department of Human Services\u2019 Office of Behavioral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 03:46:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}