By many measures, policy leaders in Kentucky have taken important steps to combat opioid overdose deaths and related challenges. State leaders embraced Medicaid expansion, in a region of the country where several holdout states remain. Regulations that would have severely limited access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted. A record number of syringe services programs statewide have made a difference in curbing infectious disease transmission.
The most recent data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the death rate from overdoses took a dip, for the first time in years. It's still bad news. But possibly, if the trend continues, good news.
With her compassion and knowledge, Linda Hurley, CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare in Rhode Island, is able to convince corrections staff of the benefits of methadone and buprenorphine. But it isn't easy.
Last month, Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D., died. The deputy director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) since 2008, Warren was also acting director from 2008 to 2014. He retired in 2015.
The Addiction Health Services Research Conference will be held October 16-18 in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://www.ahsrconference.org/2024/
In a comment entitled “the new math,” Rob Kent, former general counsel for the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy, and before that general counsel for the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), sent us this.
Both medications are controlled substances, and approved to treat opioid use disorder. OTPs provide both as well as opioid antagonist naltrexone. Those are the only medications approved to treat OUD.
The Addiction Health Services Research Conference will be held October 16-18 in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://www.ahsrconference.org/2024/
Many in government are taking a victory lap over the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) overdose death numbers showing a very slight decline in the 2023. Any celebration is premature and dangerous!
Medicare's coverage for substance use disorder (SUD) care is “outdated,” and legislation is needed to fix it so that Americans aged 65 and older can be covered for residential treatment, the Legal Action Center urged in a statement last week, which included a long list of endorsing field organizations. The coverage gap is significant — residential treatment takes place in a safe and stable living environment, but it is not a hospital. Medicare also covers Americans with a disability.
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