The marion county sheriff's office's "continuing mat" program proposes to support medication assisted treatment (mat) programming which funds a full scale, comprehensive mat program that focuses on…

The Marion County Sheriff's Office was awarded a $1,524,313 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA 16.838). The grant will fund the "Continuing MAT" program, which aims to provide comprehensive medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for opioid use disorder to individuals incarcerated at the Marion County Adult Detention Center. Key components include screening all arrestees for opioid use disorder, continuing MAT treatment for those already enrolled, initiating new MAT treatment, and ensuring continuity of care and connection to community-based MAT services upon release. The program will utilize the FDA-approved medications buprenorphine and naltrexone as part of its MAT approach. The grant award period is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027.

The marion county sheriff's office's "continuing mat" program proposes to support medication assisted treatment (mat) programming which funds a full scale, comprehensive mat program that focuses on three parts: continuation, induction and community. Mat in this program refers to the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to treat substance use disorder as a medical disorder. Of the three FDA-approved medications used to treat OUD, two will be used in this program: buprenorphine and naltrexone. This program will screen all arrestees at the marion county adult detention center intake for opioid use disorder (OUD), continue mat treatment for patients that self-report at the adult detention center intake to be actively enrolled in an mat program, identify and induct at-risk patients on mat, and ensure patients are connected to health insurance and mat in the community prior to their release.