{"id":3564,"date":"2016-05-12T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/opioid-treatment-center-moving-to-kent-from-renton\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T04:30:37","slug":"opioid-treatment-center-moving-to-kent-from-renton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/opioid-treatment-center-moving-to-kent-from-renton\/","title":{"rendered":"Opioid treatment center moving to Kent from Renton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>by SARAH BRENDEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Covington Reporter Assistant Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Come August, residents in South King County seeking medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction will be able get help closer to home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acadiahealthcare.com\/locations\/renton-methadone-clinic\" target=\"_self\">Renton Comprehensive Treatment Center<\/a> on Sunset Boulevard will be moving to 84th Avenue South in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The new location will be called Kent Treatment Solutions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The site will be &#8220;considerably bigger,&#8221; said Deb Cummins, regional director for Acadia Healthcare. The facility will allow staff to accommodate more patients.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Acadia Healthcare operates the facilities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Traveling to the Renton location for some folks can be an obstacle and may take hours using public transportation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Covington Police Chief Andrew McCurdy said having a treatment center closer &#8220;will remove that obstacle and hopefully increase the likelihood of success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cummins added they are working to partner with Covington.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come August, residents in South King County seeking medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction will be able get help closer to home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}