The School of Social Work at SDSU has partnered with SDPL and Father Joe’s Villages to provide addiction treatment with Suboxone.
David Houle is a San Diego resident experiencing homelessness. He's participating in an addiction treatment program that uses Suboxone. Oct. 5, 2023. San Diego, Calif.
Then he saw a flier at the San Diego Central Library, telling him about a program aimed at helping people addicted to opioids with a drug called Suboxone. Its primary ingredient is buprenorphine. Houle said he responded and signed up for a Suboxone treatment at Father Joe’s Villages.“After talking with the doctors at Father Joe’s, and taking it every day — getting to the right dose — it has really helped me a whole lot," Houle said.
Buprenorphine itself is actually an opioid that binds to a person’s opiate receptor and can knock more dangerous and potent drugs off of it. Suboxone that’s given to people in the SDSU program includes both buprenorphine and naloxone, commonly known as Narcan. “We’ve seen people stabilize. We’ve seen people reconnect with family. We’ve seen them obtain income — housing. We’ve seen people find and obtain jobs that they were unable to prior,” Partch said.
Urada got a two-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to find out if intervening with buprenorphine could make a difference. Two months ago they began reaching out to people with addiction who used the central library. “Libraries have become dynamic and reflexive and respond to the needs of the community in real time as opposed to holding those traditional values and mission, and not expanding and growing with our communities,” said Jennifer Jenkins, deputy director for the San Diego Public Library.
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