Are Regulatory Roadblocks Impeding Quality Addiction Treatment?

Let’s start with some statistics. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that there were over 54,000 overdose deaths in 2015, easily eclipsing the record-setting number of roughly 47,000 the prior year. Nearly 35,000 of the overdose deaths in 2015 were the result of opioid drugs; and over 12,000 of those were caused by heroin. Put these figures up against the fact that roughly three percent (31,619) of the country’s 800,000-plus physicians are certified to prescribe the potentially lifesaving drug buprenorphine. Roughly 23 million Americans suffer from addiction and only a fraction of them have access to one of this critical treatment and maintenance resource.

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