Addiction Treatment Program in Scranton Receives $1 Million Grant

SCRANTON, Pa. - Aug. 13, 2018 - PRLog -- An addiction treatment program in Scranton, Pennsylvania has become the beneficiary of a grant to assist the treatment of opioid addiction in Lackawanna County.

The Wright Center has acquired approximately $1 million to create a Pennsylvania Coordinated Medication Assisted Treatment (PacMAT) program. The program gives MAT access to hundreds of people in Northern Pennsylvania.

The Wright Center is a nonprofit organization that started in 1976 as an internal medicine residency program and turned into a multifaceted medical center that offers substance abuse treatment programs.

Governor Tom Wolf and his administration stated a few months ago that drug abuse treatment centers were going to able to apply for one of four $1 million grants to create the PacMAT program. The beneficiaries were selected by departments of Health, Human Services and Drug and Alcohol Programs.

The funding was allocated using the $26.5 million in resources from the federal government supplied through the 21st Century Cures Act.

The funding was expressed out in detail in the 2017-2018 Governor's Budget, which also aimed to expand access to naloxone. The executive budget called for giving $2 million to drug courts in an attempt to assist inmates struggling with opioid use disorders.

The Wolf Administration also wanted to limit the amount of opioids that could be prescribed throughout the state and toughen the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. The administration called for creating new guidelines to assist doctors' prescribing practices.

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