About Reach

"It's not replacing one drug for another. Its just medication that will help you to get better, just like you're taking medication for all the other illnesses that we have out here." -Darrell treatment of diabetes, high blood pressure, or depression. They are part of treatment and an overall chronic disease management approach." -Dr. Olsen

"Medications like methadone or buprenorphine are much like insulin, beta blockers, or antidepressants for the treatment of diabetes, high blood pressure, or depression. They are part of treatment and an overall chronic disease management approach.” - Dr. Olsen

"We have sufficient evidence to show that the mortality benefits that we get when you provide and offer people medications as part of their overall treatment is so great that withholding that offer is not considered standard of care anymore. Studies repeatedly show that when we treat people with methadone or buprenorphine, their risk of dying from an opioid-related overdose drops by 50-80%." -Dr. Olsen

"We have really good evidence MOUD increases people's likelihood of getting employed, reduces the rate of crime, and improves people's overall health, housing situation, family relationships, and overall stability. These are the things people talk about when they talk about remission and recovery, and so the idea people cannot be in recovery when you take one of these medications? That doesn't hold water." -Dr. Olsen

“When something like buprenorphine or methadone is taken for the treatment of an opioid use disorder, in someone for whom that is the right medication and it is taken at the right dose that is therapeutic for them, they are not getting high.” -Dr. Olsen