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wbjournal.com | November 25, 2019 | Worcester Business Journal 13 H E A L T H C A R E F O C U S We're in business to help your business. Let's start with a suite of tools that can make your business flow more smoothly. That means more time for you to do what you do best - run your business! We're local and we're experienced. We have the tools to accelerate your success. From equipment finance 1 to real estate, from short- term credit 2 to funding for raw materials and production factors - look to People's United Bank. Let's talk. ©2019 People's United Bank, N.A. | Member FDIC | Equal Housing Lender There's only one way to run your business. Your way. David Eidle SVP, Business Banking Team Leader 978-624-1088 | david.eidle@peoples.com 1 Equipment financing provided through People's Capital & Leasing , a wholly-owned subsidiary of People's United Bank. All credit applications are subject to credit approval. 2 Subject to application and credit approval. Massachusetts has the 15th highest rate of adult binge drinking among states and the District of Columbia. Massachusetts binge drinking tion of the population needing addic- tion or mental health services not receiving it, Spectrum said. Only an estimated 12% to 15% of those who need care are getting it, said Dr. Romas Buivydas, Spectrum's vice president of clinical development. That's why this summer, Isaacson set a goal of treating 500,000 patients by 2025. "Our primary focus is to respond to where there's a need," Blanchard said. Spectrum now sees around 5,400 patients on an outpatient basis each day for methadone treatment, up from 2,400 in 2013 and around 800 two decades ago. "And that felt like a really big num- ber," Robin Nagle, a Spectrum clinical Spectrum's New England Recovery Center in Westborough is one of the leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in Massachusetts. supervisor, said of the earlier figure. Spectrum's growing footprint now includes Framingham, Leominster, Marlborough, Milbury, Milford and Southbridge in Central Massachusetts, along with others in the Berkshires, Saugus and Waltham. More than 300 inpatient beds are available for patients at facilities in Westborough and Weymouth. Spectrum has a presence in correctional facilities in Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. That list is set to expand by another three centers Spectrum has planned. "There's this whole subset of the population who needs care," Isaacson said. North Dakota 24.9% Wisconsin 24.4% District of Columbia 24.4% Montana 21.3% Iowa 21.3% Illinois 20.8% Minnesota 20.5% Nebraska 20.4% Maine 20.2% Alaska 20% Michigan 19.8% Hawaii 19.8% Ohio 19.5% Vermont 19% MASSACHUSETTS 18.7% Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015) The Massachusetts drug overdose mortality rate, carried in large part by opioid deaths, has more than quadrupled in less than 20 years, placing it ninth nationally in 2017. Massachusetts drug overdoses '99 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 0 10 20 30 40 Rate (per 100,000 people) Deaths 7.5 12 19 26 33 32 488 780 1,289 1,724 2,227 2,168 '05 '14 '15 '16 '17 '99 '05 '14 '15 '16 '17 Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention W PHOTO/COURTESY SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS