New Snohomish County mobile opioid care unit showcased

MONROE — A showcase for a new mobile opioid treatment clinic Tuesday marked the availability of services to rural areas throughout Snohomish County.

Lynnwood Comprehensive Treatment Center — a part of Acadia Healthcare — showed off its new Mobile Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Clinic on Tuesday. Funding came from $1.4 million in opioid settlement money from lawsuits against drug companies that played a significant role in worsening the drug crisis nationwide.

The mobile treatment unit, based in Gold Bar with planned stops in Oso, targets rural and underserved communities across the county. A clinic that can meet people where they are could be life-saving, according to Regional Director Nicole Smith-Mathews.

“There are people right now who don’t have access to this kind of care because they live in a spot where they don’t have transportation, or for whatever reason they can’t get out to the closest clinic,” she said in an interview. “Maybe the closest clinic is 45 minutes, so it’s really hard for them to spend that hour and a half each day if they have to go to a facility.”

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