“It is contingent on hiring required staff, however we are anticipating mid-June,” Thorpe said.
But the regional vice president of BayMark Health Services – the parent company of the treatment organization Recovery Services of New Mexico, which got the contract – gave a much less definitive answer.
“Because of its importance, Recovery Services obviously wants to provide buprenorphine at the MDC as soon as possible,” Candice Rothenbuhler wrote in an email in mid May. “That being said, all stakeholders agree that it is imperative that the program is implemented in the proper manner.”
She said Recovery Services of New Mexico initially expected to start providing buprenorphine in April.