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CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Brings Nationally Recognized Program to Hampden County, Mass
CRANSTON, R.I. (September 5, 2019) — CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is bringing its nationally recognized ACI treatment program to the Hampden County House of Corrections, making it the first time in the treatment provider’s history that it will deliver services outside...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Hits the Road to Address Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities
CODAC begins offering On-the-Go services July 29 From left to right: Mary Walton, Rebecca Boss, Linda Hurley, Adam Nitenson, Linda Mahoney, and Dustin Alvanas. CRANSTON, R.I. (July 29, 2019) — CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is set to launch a statewide initiative with...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Granted Permission to Receive Medicaid Reimbursements for Peer Recovery Services
CRANSTON, R.I. (July 18, 2019) — CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is pleased to announce that it has recently been awarded a Peer Based Recovery Support Services (PBRSS) certification from the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospital...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Tours CODAC’s Newest Facility and Discusses Treatment Provider’s Impact Within the Community
CODAC Pawtucket sees 30 percent increase in its patient base Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Linda Hurley, President/CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, discuss Rhode Island’s progress in reducing overdoses and how the new facility in Pawtucket is improving access to...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare and Thundermist Health Center Deploy Technology to Expand Access to Treatment Amid Opioid Crisis
Mary Walton, a physician assistant at CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, will be among the first medical professionals in Rhode Island to prescribe suboxone remotely. CRANSTON, R.I (June 17, 2019) — Amidst the ongoing opioid crisis, CODAC Behavioral Healthcare and...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Delivers Narcan Kits Within 24 Hours for Highest Risk Patients
CRANSTON, R.I. (June 12, 2019) — CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is backing statewide calls for the public to carry naloxone by launching a new initiative to dispense the life-saving medication to new and current patients. Representatives from CODAC said patients at the...
On Social Media: CODAC Celebrates Nurses Week
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare would like to celebrate the contributions of nurses this Nurses Week! The annual observance is a time to reflect on the impact nurses have had in the public health field, andto remember an important figure in nursing history. To honor the...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare and Newport County Prevention Coalition bring COAAST’s Newest Play to Troubled R.I. Communities
Performances to be held on May 6, 13, 20, and June 3 Editor's note: Event locations have been updated from the original release. NEWPORT, R.I. (April 24, 2019) — The second act of the widely-lauded “Four Legs to Stand On” play is coming to Newport County in May and...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Part of Innovative Study to Offer Medication Assisted Treatment at Pharmacies
A new study in Rhode Island is taking a novel approach to dealing with the opioid crisis that could eventually be replicated across the country. Through a $1.6 million grant awarded to Rhode Island Hospital from the National Institutes of Health, pharmacies will take...
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Expands into Pawtucket As Cases of Opioid Use Disorder Continue to Climb
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (March 7, 2019) — Due to the growing number of people seeking treatment services for substance use disorder, CODAC Behavioral Healthcare has expanded its operations by opening a new location at 600 Pawtucket Ave., Pawtucket. More than 220 patients will...
Rhode Island Expanding on Groundbreaking MAT Initiative for Offenders
February 7, 2019 by Gary A. Enos, Editor You can also read this article on Addiction Professional. Rhode Island has made pioneering progress in ensuring that justice-involved individuals with an opioid use disorder (OUD) receive medication treatment both while in...
Providence Journal: Senate overwhelmingly passes criminal justice overhaul
The US Senate passed landmark legislation this week to address the staggering number of Americans who have been imprisoned for non-violent crimes. Many of these individuals are battling mental health and substance abuse problems and are incredibly poor. This bill,...
Michael Bloomberg praises the RIDOC MAT program
Philanthropist Michael Bloomberg visits RI, praises the RIDOC MAT program CRANSTON (November 29, 2018) — Philanthropist Michael Bloomberg visited Cranston’s Adult Correctional Institution on Monday to develop a firm understanding of the...
‘Recovery Tree’ Helps RI Families Find Solace Amid Opioid Epidemic
Recovery Tree helps RI families Find Solace Amid Opioid Epidemic On a fall afternoon, David Dorsey patiently waited in the Bernadette Building located at the Cranston prison complex. His office is housed within the halls of a former penitentiary that used to hold...
RIDOC’s MAT Program is Helping Save Lives — NPR
Rhode Island Prisons Push To Get Inmates The Best Treatment For Opioid Addiction — NPR LISTEN·8:02 National Public Radio recently spoke with men at a medium security prison in Cranston to discuss their experience with addiction as part of an All Things Considered...
RIDOC MAT program to receive $1.5M boost — PBN
CODAC aids $1.5M expansion, evaluation of RIDOC MAT program By: Rob Borkowski CRANSTON – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded Brown University researchers a three-year, $1.5 million grant to expand and evaluate the R.I. Department...
CODAC, Family Service of Rhode Island team up to help children impacted by opioid crisis
Family Service of Rhode Island, CODAC to support children impacted by opioid epidemic with $750,000 federal grant PROVIDENCE, R.I. (November 5, 2018) — Children and youth who have been financially or emotionally impacted by their parents’ substance use disorder will...
Brown researchers, CODAC, and other partners to expand MAT program at ACI with $1.5 million grant
CODAC to support expanded opioid treatment program backed by $1.5 million grant CRANSTON (October 31, 2018) —Rhode Island is poised to take another big leap in curbing the opioid epidemic with the expansion of a treatment program run by the Rhode Island Department of...
