North Carolina’s Meridian Behavioral Health Services Launches Early Recovery Team For Addiction Treatment

Meridian Behavioral Health Services (Meridian) has launched an Early Recovery Team (ERT) as an intervention for those in the early stages of addiction recovery in Haywood and Jackson Counties in North Carolina. The ERT is an alternative community-based approach, working with individuals who have had difficulty engaging in treatment. ERT's goal is to minimize the number of consumers going to emergency departments for treatment and provide support to consumers being released from the hospital or incarceration to rejoin the community.

The ERT is funded in part through an $82,500 grant from the Evergreen Foundation. Consumers can take . . .