The wellness center will offer addiction and mental health services along with medication-assisted treatment, primary medical, and dental care. The addiction treatment program is designed to reduce barriers patients face and provide improved access to care within Grays Harbor County, according to the Nation. The Quinault Wellness Center is modeled after the Swinomish Tribe’s Didgwalic Wellness Center in Anacortes, which boasts a 75% success rate in keeping patients in the program and on the road to recovery as an outpatient facility. According to the 2016 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey, 4% of Grays Harbor 10th grade students in Grays Harbor reported recent use of pain pills to get high 9% have misused someone else’s prescription and 7% report using heroin once.
“The comprehensive programs offered at our center will provide hundreds of our community members a chance for long-term recovery.”ĭata from the 2017 Washington Syringe Survey Exchange Health Survey shows 48% of Grays Harbor participants in the survey indicated they were hooked on prescription opioids before they began to use heroin. It’s important to us to provide a treatment program that recognizes the value of every individual and provides a caring and effective support program,” said Capoeman.
