Sentences with phrase «expand access to medication»

David Matia, a drug court judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where deaths also have risen significantly, said incentives are needed to get hospitals to build more detox facilities, to encourage physicians to expand access to medication assisted treatments and to encourage medical students to pursue addiction and behavioral health specialties as their area of practice.

The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

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The new effort aims to stop the Hepatitis C virus in its tracks by increasing access to medications that can cure Hepatitis C and expanding programs to connect New Yorkers in high - risk communities with wrap - around Hepatitis C prevention, screenings and treatment services.

States and cities have been working to expand access to naloxone, with many issuing standing orders — essentially blanket prescriptions that cover entire communities — and offering legal protection to people who use the medication.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

The commentary calls upon health care providers to expand their use of medications to treat opioid addiction and reduce overdose deaths, and describes a number of misperceptions that have limited access to these potentially life - saving medications.

The article describes how HHS agencies are collaborating with public and private stakeholders to expand access to and improve utilization of medication - assisted therapies, in tandem with other targeted approaches to reducing opioid overdoses.

For example, NIDA is funding research to improve access to medication - assisted therapies, develop new medications for opioid addiction, and expand access to naloxone by exploring more user - friendly delivery systems (for example, nasal sprays).

Interventions are needed to expand access to abortion services through better equipping existing facilities, ensuring adequate and continuous supplies of medication abortion drugs, and by increasing the number of trained providers.