Health Guide 2017: Health centers take on opioid addiction

Community health centers in north-central Montana have received $350,000 in federal grants to use in the regional battle against rampant opioid abuse and to help treat people with mental health issues.

Bullhook Community Health Center in Havre and Sweet Medical Center in Chinook each received $175,000. The grants are part of $2.8 million in grants to 17 health centers in Montana and $200 million nationwide from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resource and Services Administration.

The opioid epidemic has been federally recognized as a national crisis, and the Hi-...