Boulder, Larimer receive opioid abatement grants
DENVER — The Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health, has awarded funding to 17 county jails to continue or initiate medication-assisted treatment for people with opioid-use disorder. Larimer and Boulder counties are among those to receive grants.
The state is awarding nearly $1.9 million in total to the 17 county sheriff’s offices that applied for funding through Sept. 29, 2020. Medication-assisted treatment combines medication with behavioral therapy and is considered to be the most effective way to treat opioid-use disorder. Up to this point, the state has funded medication-assisted treatment services in five of…
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