The OPIOID EMERGENCY
On November 15, 2017 there was an call to action policy change meeting for solutions on Capitol Hill. The meeting addressed MAT the Medication Assisted Treatment as a Frontline Response to the National Opioid Emergency Policy.
The American opioid epidemic is officially a public health emergency, with over 175 lives lost to opioid overdose every day. The time to lower the barriers to lifesaving treatments is now.
Panel Participants:
- Former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, AOR Advisor, Member of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
- Former Congresswoman Mary Bono, Co-Founder, Collaborative for Effective Prescription Opioid Policies (CEPOP)
- Mark Parrino, President, American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, Inc. (AATOD)
- Dr. Frances Levin, Past President of American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry; Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University; Chief of Substance Abuse Division at NY Presbyterian Hospital
- Moderator: Brianna Ehley, POLITICO Healthcare Reporter
Watch the complete event for answers to the emergency HERE
Thank Former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy and the excellent panel for answers