Transformations at MHA Westchester: Integrated Services to Address the Opioid Epidemic

• By: Rosemarie Spencer, MS, LMSW Alison Carroll, LCSW-R The Mental Health Association of Westchester
• January 1st, 2020
• behavioral health, coordinated services, integrated care, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, person-centered treatment, social determinants of health, substance use disorder
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Current national trends indicate that each year more people die of overdoses—the majority of which involve opioid drugs—than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, the Korean War, or any armed conflict since the end of World War II. Each day 90 Americans die prematurely from an overdose that...