AT Forum Newsletter Issue 31-1

Steve Woolworth, PhD, the new CEO of Evergreen Treatment Services, has big shoes to fill. Molly Carney, the longtime CEO, is retiring, and Dr. Woolworth—at the helm of the Seattle, Washington-based opioid treatment program (OTP) for only six weeks when we interviewed him in February, was humble about his familiarity with the controversies of the day, such as the move to “x the … [Read more...] about Introducing Steve Woolworth, New Evergreen CEO

In Colorado, some opioid treatment programs (OTPs) governed by federal methadone regulations are combining the office-based opioid treatment (OBOT) protocol with OTP. This means that the patients in the OBOT program in the OTP can get a prescription for buprenorphine right away—just as if they went to a prescribing provider in the community. In Colorado, some opioid … [Read more...] about Three Separate Programs Under One OTP Umbrella at Behavioral Health Group

Congress is getting annoyed with the stalling by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on mobile vans and telemedicine for treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). A letter sent in January by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D-NH), to Uttam Dhillon, acting administrator of the DEA, called out the DEA for failing to … [Read more...] about Lawmakers Urge DEA to Move on Mobile Vans, Telemedicine