Addiction Treatment: Available Options

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29
PROGRAM #11034 11:00 AM PT

Addiction Treatment: Available Options. 

As California faces a deadly overdose epidemic intensified by opioids and fentanyl, some clinics are turning to therapies used to treat opioid use disorder. These are Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT), which have helped reduce opioid-related deaths. Yet access to these life-saving treatments remains unequal. What treatments are available? How do they work? Who is being left out—and what is being done to expand access?

Guests: Eva Yakel, Project Director of MAT (Medications for Addiction Treatment) Services, Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse-L.A. CADA, Los Angeles, CA; Luis Moncada, Outpatient Program Director, The Latino Commission, San Francisco, CA.

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