Project VBOT (Virtual Based Opioid Treatment) is a clinical operating protocol developed by The Recovery Platform, LLC in partnership with the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation. This page describes the partnership, the origin of the model, and the policy context that shaped it.
The North Carolina Medical Society Foundation is the charitable arm of the North Carolina Medical Society, established in 1849. The Foundation has spent over a century and a half working alongside physicians to expand access to evidence-based care in North Carolina, especially in rural and underserved communities.
Project VBOT was developed in partnership with the Foundation as a response to the opioid crisis: a virtual, protocol-driven approach designed to bring evidence-based medication-assisted treatment to patients in every county in the states it serves, regardless of proximity to a physical clinic.
The VBOT model was shaped by a specific window in federal opioid-treatment policy. The 2020 SUPPORT Act and subsequent DEA and SAMHSA guidance expanded the ability of licensed clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine via telehealth, removing many of the historic barriers that had kept medication-assisted treatment out of reach for rural patients.
Project VBOT was built to take that policy opening and turn it into an actual, operating clinical service: standardized protocols, licensed clinicians, and structured monitoring, delivered entirely by telehealth.
To disseminate a proven clinical protocol for virtual medication-assisted treatment, so that licensed clinical organizations can operate the protocol in their own state and reach patients who would otherwise go without care.
Care is delivered by a licensed clinical entity in your state. Select where you live and you will see the provider that will treat you before any information is collected.
The Recovery Platform, LLC operates this platform. The provider named for your state is the licensed clinical entity that will deliver your care.
