Thanks to the Aug. 8 town hall meeting at the Guy Cole Center in Sequim, we know many people support a medication-assisted treatment clinic to treat victims of the opioid epidemic.
Former public health administrator Tom Locke, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Chairman Ron Allen and others answered the fear and misinformation.
Sheriff Bill Benedict traveled to Anacortes and found their MAT clinic peaceful.
The Anacortes police chief told him they get more complaints of trouble at Safeway.
People struggling with opioids told the crowd that MAT treatment is helping them put their lives together.
I had a chance to speak for this clinic to treat friends, neighbors, women, men and children, victims of an epidemic caused by “profit-driven” Big Pharma that flooded communities with millions of oxycodone pills.
The MAT clinic is not the only health issue we face.
The Trump administration plans to slash by 60 percent, from $118.35 to $47.34 per patient visit, the Medicare reimbursement rate for the OMC clinic in Sequim.
We need “Save Our Clinic” yard signs on every lawn.
Thanks to Rep. Derek Kilmer for sponsoring a bill to block the cut.
And thanks to Clallam County Commissioner Mark Ozias for speaking out in support of the MAT clinic.
We have organized “People for the MAT Clinic.”
For time and place of next meeting email greenpastures164@gmail.com.
You are invited.
Tim Wheeler,
Sequim