The Midtown Phillips neighborhood board accepted a $937,990 grant to provide medication-assisted therapy for people with opioid use disorder.
Treatment will be offered to people who are booked into the Adult Detention Center, sentenced to the Adult Corrections Facility and diverted to the Behavioral Health Center at 1800 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis.
Diagnosing opioid use disorder and beginning medical treatment while in custody could have positive outcomes for people, reducing the number of deaths