Comment: Insurance Coverage for Over-the-Counter Preventive Services Without a Prescription
Submitted to U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services
Opioid Epidemic
Policy
Briefing: Addressing U.S. Opioid Epidemic Through Increasing Access to Methadone
Presented to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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On December 4th, 2023, Ashish Thakrar, MD, MSHP, LDI Associate Fellow from the Perelman School of Medicine; David Mandell, ScD, LDI Senior Fellow and Director of the Penn Center for Mental Health; Jeffrey Jaeger, MD, FASAM LDI Senior Fellow from Perelman; Julia Hinckley, JD, Director of Policy Strategy at LDI and experts from UPMC conducted a virtual briefing for a bipartisan group of staff from the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions regarding proposed Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access legislation to increase access to methadone to address the U.S. overdose epidemic. This team of specialists reviewed evidence suggesting that expanding who can prescribe methadone would reduce overdose deaths.
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