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Doctors, companies push to keep looser, pandemic-era rules for prescribing opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine
March 6, 2022
STAT News | By Andrew Marquardt
https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/07/doctors-companies-push-to-keep-looser-pandemic-era-rules-for-prescribing-opioid-addiction-treatment-via-telemedicine/
“The idea of having to travel every day to pick up your medication is just another barrier set up,” said Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) of the loosening of prescribing rules. “It is time that we start treating [people with opioid use disorder] as you would your family, get them access to treatment and work with them just like you would any other disease.”