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