MedPage Today (2/22, Henderson) reports CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, which offers “opioid treatment in Rhode Island,” has “partnered with Brown University to study how well patients and [professionals] feel telephone counseling for” medication-assisted treatment (MAT) “has been working during the pandemic.” The partnership’s “results have proved promising in a potential bright spot for the addiction treatment sector, grappling with how best to protect vulnerable patients from potential exposure to COVID-19, serve new ones as overdoses spike during the pandemic, and get reimbursed for their efforts.” So far, “unpublished data show that the majority of 247 patients and 41 counselors who participated in a survey between August and October of last year believed telephone counseling improved the therapeutic relationship, Linda Hurley, president and CEO of CODAC, told MedPage Today.”
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