Medicaid, the national health care program for those with disabilities or low income, pays for a vast majority of drug treatment programs — from detox to medication-assisted treatments like methadone and Suboxone and counseling. It is part of Obamacare, which Trump and national Republicans have vowed to dismantle.
About 5,000 Montgomery County Alcohol Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) clients were enrolled via Medicaid expansion in 2015, according to an ADAMHS spokeswoman. In Ohio, Medicaid expansion covered 676,850 Ohioans as of June 2016. Since the beginning of the program, 954,887 non-duplicated individuals have received coverage. Within that group, approximately 50 percent had a Medicaid claim for behavioral health services, which includes substance abuse, according to the Ohio Department of Medicaid.
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