Addiction Treatment Shrinks During the Pandemic, Leaving People With Nowhere To Turn

Here is how the COVID19 pandemic is making the opioid crisis worse.

– a special dispensation to prescribe opioids for addiction – can provide telemedicine for buprenorphine. The federal government's actions have moved care online, but only minimally increased treatment capacity.Things are dire, but leaders can deploy effective strategies now.

In the short term, leaders can double down on harm reduction. They can blanket communities with naloxone, putting it in every library, gas station, pharmacy and vending machine, making it as commonplace as a fire extinguisher. They can invest in syringe services programs and encourage people to use

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