The Marion County Sheriff's Office requests funding for the continuation and expansion of a medication assisted treatment program for individuals incarcerated at the Community Justice Complex.

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.