Behavioral Health Business September 27, 2022
Google’s life science-focused sister company Verily has made a bet on a brick-and-mortar opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment center.
This comes as the technology conglomerate – along with its parent company and other business segments – continues to move further into behavioral health care.
The Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL) life science subsidiary teamed up with providers Kettering Health Network and Premier Health to form the OUD treatment center nonprofit OneFifteen in Dayton, Ohio. It also worked with Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE) on the location.
In 2021, there were 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. This represents a 28.5% increase in deaths from the previous year, according to the CDC.
The center, which is named for the 115 lives...