Medicaid Limits Access to Medications for Painkiller Addicts
Medicaid limits access to medications for painkiller addicts
Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment
Many private insurance companies and state Medicaid agencies across the country impose sharp limitations on access to medications used in the treatment of the addiction to prescription painkillers known as opioids. A report commissioned by the American …
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Prescription drug use on the rise
Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment
There is evidence that opioids—the drugs prescribed to alleviate acute and chronic pain—are leading to addiction and sometimes death through overdose. So how … He's considered returning to England, but he can't get enough pain relief to endure the …
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Access to Meds to Treat Drug Addiction Is Vastly Limited
Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment
Congress also imposes limits on the number of patients a clinician can treat at one time. Furthermore, the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 requires that care providers obtain a special Drug Enforcement Administration waiver to prescribe certain …
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