
Estimated Overdose Deaths Due to the Loss of MOUD in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Substance Use Disorder
Policy
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.
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Research Memo: Response to Request for Technical Assistance
Research Memo: Supplement to Response to Request for Technical Assistance
Research Memo: Delivered to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Testimony: Delivered to Philadelphia City Council
Briefing: Presented to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Comment: Submitted to the U.S. Committee on Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health