Addiction must be attacked with all medically safe and readily available treatments we can to break its stranglehold on our children and communities, Mike Turner writes.
Across Ohio, family dinners are missing a member, workplaces have lost colleagues and, despite our best efforts to protect our children, teenagers are mourning the death of classmates at the hands of fentanyl.
We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to combatting the fentanyl crisis, and one important piece of that is making sure that treatment is readily available and accessible in Ohio and throughout the country. One treatment that is largely untapped is buprenorphine — a safe and effective FDA-approved medication that curbs cravings.Decades-old federal regulations that prevent health care providers from prescribing, providers must first receive an “x-waiver” by taking an 8-to-24-hour training, time that would be better spent providing treatment to patients, especially when health care providers are in such short supply.
Even after taking the training, providers are limited to treating up to 30 patients for the first year. This has an outsized effect on states like Ohio,The MAT Act would eliminate the need for the x-waiver and remove the cap on prescribing buprenorphine.Coroner Anahi Ortiz:
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