HHS Rescinds Opioid Treatment Guidelines, Now What?

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Just days after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of new guidelines designed to increase access to medication-assisted treatment (i.e. buprenorphine) for opioid use disorder, the Biden administration rescinded them. The guidelines, which were issued in the final days of the Trump administration, made it easier for physicians with…

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New Rule Makes it Easier to Share Substance Abuse Information While Protecting Privacy

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently finalized changes to federal regulations relating to the confidentiality of substance-use disorder patient records. Published in the Federal Register on January 18, the rule makes it easier to share the medical history of patients undergoing substance abuse treatment in federally funded drug and alcohol treatment programs,…

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