[music] upo, in collaboration with the district of columbia health department, has a contract to operate an outpatient opiate treatment program. the doctor begins an examination, the counselors begin to talk with them and do an evaluation of them. medication-assisted therapy is replacement therapy in some sense, and that's what we do here for patients who are primarily addicted to opiates. half of our patients also come in addicted to cocaine, and i would say about half of them also have problems with alcohol. "deep breath." at the time i ended up starting drinking, i wasn't using any heroin or anything but i started drinking. and i started drinking a lot and i was resisting everything that they were trying to do for me because they were trying to help me. and my counselor was telling me, "man, we're not going to let you die because you're one of the good ones." and from that point on it was just like a burst of light just hit me and i just threw it up crying. i told them to put my life in their hands. the patient is assigned medication. if they are a transfer patient they may already ha