Medicaid expansion and opioid supply policies to address the opioid overdose crisis

Highlights • The opioid overdose crisis remains a chief public health concern in the United States.• Buprenorphine availability for opioid use disorder treatment remains limited.• Medicaid expansion states with pain management clinic (pill mill) laws had higher treatment availability.• Limiting opioid supply while improving buprenorphine access is a promising strategy.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports

• Publication date

  2022-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100042PMID 36845983PMCID 9948913
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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