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Addiction Experts: Comprehensive Insurance Coverage is Critical to Stemming Opioid Crisis

 

Addiction Experts Oppose Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA).

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Source: fda.gov

Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—July 6, 2017. Our nation’s escalating opioid crisis – with more than 144 people dying every day from overdose – will not abate without access to comprehensive substance use disorder treatment in private insurance and Medicaid. The Senate’s version of healthcare repeal would cripple national efforts to address this public health epidemic.

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No time-limited infusion of federal dollars for addiction treatment can fill the gaping coverage and financing holes, meet the unmet need for substance use…

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