Drug Abuse Programs in Boise Using Medication Assisted Treatment

BOISE, Idaho - May 8, 2018 - PRLog -- Drug abuse programs in Boise, Idaho are assiting people that have opioid use disorders fight it with medication assisted treatment (MAT)

Idaho currently offers four locations that have MAT programs, two in Boise and two in Nampa. Many of the patients often-times have to come from long distance to obtain this type of treatment.

Raise the Bottom Addiction Treatment Center is a facility that is one of the drug abuse programs that utilizes MAT. About 300 patients enter the facility a day hoping for some assistance in fighting their addiction.

Raise the Bottom employs several core values when it comes to accomplishing their mission and vision. Those values are respect, diversity, accountability, teamwork, quality, integrity, passion and human relationships.

Jason Austin, who serves as the executive director at Raise the Bottom, indicated that some people have a stigma for addiction and believe that only low class people have it. He is against this point of view and believes it is short-sighted. He highlighted that methadone confronts the receptors in the brain that cause opioid cravings.

He also stated that cravings tend to vanish after the first week of treatment and patients also start to become hopeful that they can get past their substance use disorder.

There were seven people that died from drug-related deaths between 2012 and 2016, according to the Idaho Opioid Needs Assessment.

T (https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Portals/0/Medical/SUD/...)here are three forms of treatment at Raise the Bottom: buprenorphine that is dissolvable, a shot of naltrexone or a liquid form of methadone. A majority of patients begin their treatment with a small dosage of methadone.

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