Behavioral Health Business December 9, 2025
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Clinician retention challenges in addiction treatment arise when daily duties diverge from the essential mission of providing care.
The addiction treatment industry now has the opportunity to bring innovation to bear on perennial challenges in ways previously unimaginable. The advent and seemingly overnight proliferation of AI-backed software and the incursion of manufacturing-like technologies into addiction treatment, specifically the opioid treatment program (OTP) space, make the potential savings of time and capital by technology use a reality.
“Clinics are really struggling to keep the nurses in this role,” Sam Wilson, chief operating officer of Opio Connect Inc., told Behavioral Health Business, referring to the role that nurses play in administering methadone treatments within OTPs.
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