ARWV: Removing Barriers to the Use of MAT

Advancing Recovery West Virginia (ARWV): removing barriers to the use of medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence.

Through their Advancing Recovery partnership, Prestera Center for Mental Health Services, Seneca Health Services, Westbrook Health Services and Valley HealthCare System, are working with the West Virginia Division on Alcohol and Drug Abuse to improve addiction treatment services in the state.

Collectively, the four partnering agencies provide substance abuse services to over 40 percent of the counties in West Virginia and to 49 percent of the population of the state. In the first 12 months of their collaboration, ARWV increased the use of buprenorphine for opioid dependence by 102 percent.