The Connecticut Opioid Response Team and the state’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Council have supplied Governor Dannel Malloy’s administration with a plan to tackle Connecticut’s opioid crisis.Malloy accepted the three-year strategy Thursday. It calls for increasing access to medication-assisted treatment such as methadone, strengthening prescription guidelines and targeting geographic areas of high need.
“We have to have now learned that there is a significant portion of the addicted society who simply can’t just beat the addiction on their own,” Malloy said. “They need additional assistance.”
With Connecticut already spending more than $65 million a year on opioid dependency treatment, Malloy noted that not every aspect of the report will be funded immediately.
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