Despite Overdose Epidemic, Georgia Caps The Number Of Opioid Treatment Clinics

(By Michell Elroy, WABE for Kaiser Health News)

Zac Talbott sees the irony of running an opioid treatment program from a former doctor’s office.

“The funny thing is, a lot of patients are like, ‘This is where I first started getting prescribed pain pills,’ ” Talbott said.

Now, the Tennessee native says those same patients are coming to his clinic in Chatsworth, Georgia, a small city about a half hour south of the Tennessee border, to fight their addiction to those very pills. Read article here…..

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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