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09.24.19

Roadmap on State-Level Efforts to End the Opioid Epidemic

The analysis focuses on state efforts to improve access to high-quality, evidence-based treatment for persons with a substance use disorder (SUD) or the need for comprehensive, multidisciplinary, multimodal pain care, and to increase access to naloxone to save lives from overdose.


08.26.19

New Webinar—Understanding Mental Health Parity: Regulatory, Policy and Litigation Trends

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) requires health plans to provide equal levels of treatment for mental health conditions and substance use disorders (SUDs) as they do for physical illnesses.


06.25.19

Best Practices and Next Steps in the Opioid Epidemic

Mississippi’s opioid epidemic is following national trends.


05.22.19

Responding to the Opioid Epidemic

In Pennsylvania, Governor Tom Wolf has been laser-focused on solving the opioid epidemic that has hit the state so hard.


05.02.19

Marketplace Roundup: Recent Federal Marketplace Activity Promotes State-Level Policymaking

In late March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Marketplace open enrollment report showing that 11.4 million people selected Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace plans in 2019—a 4% decline in the 39 states that use Healthcare.gov and a 1% increase in the 11 ...


04.24.19

Ending the Opioid Epidemic: Leading-Edge Responses and Next Steps

The nation’s opioid epidemic started off being fueled by prescription opioids but has shifted into being driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogues.


03.25.19

You’re Invited: What Are Best Practices for Ending the Opioid Epidemic?

Between 1999 and 2017, more than 700,000 people died from a drug overdose—with almost 400,000 of those deaths involving an opioid. In 2017 alone, there were more than 70,200 drug overdoses, with about 68% involving illicit fentanyl, heroin or a prescription opioid.


02.25.19

Ending the Opioid Epidemic: Best Practices and Next Steps

Colorado has addressed the opioid epidemic with an array of public and private initiatives.


02.25.19

New 1332 Guidance Gives States Lots to Think About

Perhaps the most interesting 2018 result is that there are now 36 “trifecta” states, where one party controls the governorship and both branches of the legislature.


02.25.19

You’re Invited: What Are Best Practices for Ending the Opioid Epidemic?

Between 1999 and 2017, more than 700,000 people died from a drug overdose—with almost 400,000 of those deaths involving an opioid.