Paul Wright shows a picture of himself in the hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, after a near fatal overdose in 2015.

Addiction experts have warned that Republican proposals to dramatically cut Medicaid funding could worsen the nation’s growing opioid crisis. So a pair of GOP senators is pushing for a solution: a massive influx of money for treatment to help stave off those effects.

But that makeshift effort may also fall flat, advocates in the recovery community say.