The Office of Behavioral Health is the recipient of a grant from SAMSHA through the Medication-Assisted Treatment Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) Grant Program. The grant, awarded Sept. 1, 2016, is $950,000 per year for three years.
The purpose of this grant is to provide funding to enhance/expand treatment service systems to increase capacity and provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated care, and evidence-based medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to individuals with opioid use disorders seeking or receiving MAT while implementing a hub and spoke model of treatment. As a result of this program, Colorado seeks to: 1) increase the number of individuals receiving MAT services with pharmacotherapies approved by the FDA for the treatment of opioid use disorders, 2) increase the number of individuals receiving integrated care, 3) decrease illicit drug use at six-month follow-ups, and 4) decrease the use of prescription opioids in a non-prescribed manner at six-month follow-ups.
For more information about Colorado MAT-PDOA programs, please contact:
Meredith Davis, MAT-PDOA Grant Coordinator
Office of Behavioral Health
meredith.m.davis@state.co.us | 303.866.7318