Dr. Grant Colfax stated, "We believe this decrease can be partly attributed to the gains we have seen in new clients starting medications for opioid use disorder and in our other treatment programs. These are life-saving medications that reduce the risk of death from overdose by as much as 50%. That is why in this era of fentanyl, we have been focused on getting more people into drug treatment and on the road to recovery."
Colfax emphasized, "San Francisco has significantly increased prescriptions over the past two years for medications used to treat opioid disorder, including buprenorphine and methadone. We have also seen a sharp reduction - 50% - in how long it takes to get people into residential substance abuse treatment programs, resulting in a 35% increase in participation in those programs."
Highlighting the uniqueness of recovery, Colfax remarked, "We know that everyone's path to recovery is unique and that different treatments work for different individuals. But many of these medications typically require patients to take multiple doses a day, or, in the case of methadone, make daily visits to a clinic for supervised administration."
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