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January 22, 2019
BJA Selects Model Peer Programs Addressing Opioid Epidemic
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP) has selected four organizations to serve as the first mentors in a new initiative to foster promising approaches, best practices, and evidence-supported peer program programming to address the opioid epidemic. These programs work with first responders, law enforcement, courts, jails, prisons, and community corrections to help persons with opioid use disorders achieve and maintain recovery from addiction.