SOLUTION:
State of New Jersey: There are options :
A) Provide assignment assurance. Assure clients that everyone will have an assigned clinic they can transfer to as one of their choices.
B) Provide a Buprenorphine provider to each client at an assigned clinic they can transfer to as one of their choices. (www.naabt.org if the client has online access)
C) Vouchers provided to each client immediately so they can "pay" for their initial transfer of care and upfront intake costs at any new clinic
D) Voucher credit option; if a client chooses a treatment option such as a drug free rehab facility , give them the voucher credit with the state to be used for fines, taxes, permit fees, etc !
E) Let clients move to Pa, Fla and other states that will pay for the disease of addiction to be treated. (not my recommendation)
F) Send them to Growth & Recovery Services for placement counseling of opioid maintenance care in the interim from now until they are settled in to their new program.
Really New Jersey, let's put some real treatment efforts on this expensive, devastating disease that has been eating up Camden for 40 years.
It is pretty easy to pay for premium services for these clients and others if saving $ is involved .
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