How Obamacare Is Changing Addiction Treatment Coverage
The ACA's effects on addiction treatment, however, begin with the legislation's basic expansion of healthcare access. An estimated 47 million Americans went without health insurance in 2012. The ACA aims to cover many of them, primarily by expanding …
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The scourge of heroin addiction
For example, why is medication management for the treatment of heroin/opioid addiction scorned by so many? In a recent Boston Globe article, Hillary Jacobs, director of Substance Abuse Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acknowledged that …
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Study shows important parallels between epidemic of HIV/AIDS and opioid …
There are important parallels between the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the current epidemic of opioid addiction – ones that could trigger a significant shift in opioid addiction prevention, diagnosis and treatment. These are the findings of …
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