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PBS News Hour | Opioid crisis renews focus on expanding access to methadone | Season 2024Opioid crisis renews focus on expanding access to methadone treatment

The Long Journey for Reasonable Opioid CareIn this episode, members of Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment team explain how to overcome barriers to care—and how new rules from the quarantine days of the pandemic can help show the way.

Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the best treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

Controlled Access to Methadone Fuels ‘The War on Recovery’ in California | KQEDThe specter of the opioid epidemic has shadowed life in California for nearly three decades, and opioid deaths in the state are rising precipitously. Physicians have long advocated the use of life-saving opioid medications methadone and buprenorphine to treat addiction. Despite methadone’s proven effectiveness, access to the drug has been blocked across the health care system – and California is among the most restrictive states in the nation. This week, new federal regulations take effect that

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NCLM Public Comment for SAMSHA changes

NCLM Public Comment to SAMHSA 42CFR Part 8

To Save Lives From Opioid Overdose Deaths, Bring Methadone Into Mainstream Medicine | Health Affairs Forefront

AATOD response re OTAA Fact Sheet 07-18-22[7].pdf

Response to AATOD Fact Sheets about the Opioid Treatment Access Act

Opinion: Why are we denying people with opioid addiction the most effective treatment?

AATOD response to MAT Act Fact Sheet 07-18-22[11].pdf

Response to AATOD Fact Sheets about the MAT Act

Recent modifications to the US methadone treatment system are a Band-Aid—not a solution—to the nation's broken opioid use disorder treatment system

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