The North Carolina Medical Society Project VBOT took center stage at a meeting of the Manteo Health Care Task Force on November 12. VP Franklin Walker talked to stakeholders from the Dare County community, including health care addiction treatment providers, social services, government , and nonprofit sectors.
Project VBOT (Virtual Based Opioid Treatment) expands access to treatment for people suffering from opioid use disorder who live in underserved areas.
“They’ve got so much need down there for behavioral health and addiction treatment services, but they don’t have anybody to do it,” Walker explained, “and so they’ve got people that are going to drive three hours to see patients all day and then return to go back to Greenville or wherever they came down from.”
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