Bill Radke speaks with Caleb Banta-Green, an opiate addiction expert and a member of the King County Heroin and Prescription Opiate Task Force. Banta-Green wants to see access to medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction expanded. He says stigma attached to that kind of treatment is a barrier.
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![Caleb Banta-Green is a UW professor and a member of the King County heroin and prescription opiate task force.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5bd5d42/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1300x902+0+0/resize/880x611!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkuow%2Ffiles%2F201606%2FcalebBG.jpg)
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