Goodwin Community Health adds new opioid treament progams – News – fosters.com – Dover, NH SOMERSWORTH Goodwin Community Health (GCH) is launching two new treatment initiatives to help combat the opioid abuse crisis.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced March 11, that four health centers in New Hampshire, including Goodwin Community Health, would receive grant funding to help combat heroin and prescription opioid abuse.According Lara Willard, GCH director of marketing and community relations, DHHS awarded a total of $94 million in funding to support 271 health centers in the U.S., Goodwin received the largest award given in New Hampshire $379,167.As a result, GCH will soon begin offering Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for their patients and an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP).Both programs are aimed at improving access to treatment and recovery to the greater Strafford County area.Janet Laatsch, CEO of Goodwin Community Health, said the grants will expand and improve availability of substance abuse treatment throughout the community.”It was 18 months of planning for MAT and IOP and then submitting the proposal to our board of directors.” The participant, counselor, and Medication Assisted Treatment provider (if applicable) will create a comprehensive and individualized treatment plan that will include goals and expectations around IOP, individual therapy, family involvement, and case management.Goodwin is also expanding health services to include a MAT program that combines behavioral therapy and medications to treat substance use disorders specifically buprenorphine, commonly known by its brand names Suboxone and Subutex, and Naltrexone, commonly known as Vivitrol. “We added dental, mental health, diabetes and obesity, and now the public health need is related to treatment and recovery so that is what we are adapting to.”Laatsch said they are grateful for this federal support as it will allow them to increase the number of patients they screen for substance use disorders and connect to treatment, increase the number of patients with access to MAT for opioid misuse and other substance use disorder treatment, and provide training and educational resources to help the staff make more informed prescribing decisions.”Support of this magnitude is greatly appreciated and will allow us to do even more to make an impact on NH’s opiate crisis that has hit Strafford County particularly hard,” said Laatsch.To learn more about the new MAT and IOP programs at Goodwin Community Health visit http://goodwinch.org/services/ or call 603-749-2346 x758. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_caption+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’);