A look inside the Olympia clinic serving hundreds of people battling opioid addiction

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If you hit rock bottom, what would it take to pull you back up? What if the force that pulled you down was a chemical dependency you’d been facing for decades?

Sean Allen and hundreds of locals struggling with opioid use disorder may have found their answer to that question in a small, bustling walk-in clinic that opened about a year ago in downtown Olympia.

The Olympia Bupe Clinic opened at the Capital Recovery Center on Cherry Street Southeast, which also houses the county-run syringe exchange. It provides buprenorphine, which serves as a safer alternative to opioids and heroin, which is the drug people with opioid use disorder often turn to when their prescriptions run out.

‘Now I can actually live my life’ Allen, 49, was first prescribed an opioid pain reliever when he injured his back about 30 years ago, he told The Olympian.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-look-inside-the-olympia-clinic-serving-hundreds-of-people-battling-opioid-addiction/ar-BBYqNZ8

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1. Our town is at war

over such a facility opening in the future. The tribe will build and manage it and it will be a full service facility - counseling, healthcare,etc, but no overnight facilities.
Many object to having addicts visible to the public, some religious people want addicts to go cold turkey - even if it kills them, and some real estate people are spreading fear with the possibility of reduced home value. Oh yes - there seem to be many who are concerned the tribe would profit (they would not). There is general hysteria.

Anyway - it has been a demonstration of elitism, racism, and privilege that is quite sickening.