
Exclusion of Abortion and Abortion Counseling from the VA Medical Benefits Package
Comment: Submitted to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Substance Use Disorder
Policy
On March 21st, 2024, Ashish Thakrar, MD, MS, LDI Associate Fellow from the Perelman School of Medicine; Sarah S. Kawasaki, MD, Current OTP Medical Director Associate Professor of Medicine Penn State Health; Nicole O’Donnell, Project Manager Penn Center for Addiction Medicine & Policy (CAMP); and Julia Hinckley, JD, Director of Policy Strategy at LDI conducted a virtual briefing for a bipartisan group of staff from the U.S. House of Representatives regarding proposed Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act legislation to increase access to methadone to address the U.S. overdose epidemic. This team of experts outlined evidence suggesting that expanding who can prescribe methadone would reduce overdose deaths.
Views expressed by the researchers are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) or the University of Pennsylvania.
Comment: Submitted to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Comment: Delivered to the U.S. Department of Labor
Memo: Delivered to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Letter: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Letter: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Comment: Delivered to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions