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President Obama Continues Action Against Opioid Epidemic

March 29, 2016 Posted by Jack Ford

alt="WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 31: U.S. President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order directing the Food and Drug Administration to take action to help prevent and reduce prescription drug shortages as he is joined by (L-R) Bonnie Frawley, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Jay Cuetara and FDA Commissioner Peggy Hamburg at the White House October 31, 2011 in Washington DC. The order also protects consumers and from price gouging on medications. (Photo by Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images)"

The fight for curbing opioid-related overdoses is something President Barack Obama can get behind, and he proved that during his speech at the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta.

The President introduced today more private sector and public initiatives that could slow down the abuse of opioids in the United States.

Reports of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) showed that in 2014, 18,893 deaths involved prescription opioids in the U.S., rising with 16 percent more than those in 2013.

After he had proposed $1.1 billion in new funding to help Americans who struggle with opioid use disorder, President Obama announced that his administration wants to do more.

The President proposed the increasing of the current patient limit from 100 to 200 for physicians “qualified to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction.” At the same time, he wants to divide $94 million in funding among 261 community health centers across the nation.

Lastly, the proposal includes providing $11 million in funding opportunity for up to 11 states which show interest in expanding their medication-assisted treatment services.

Mr. Obama also talked about establishing a Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force chaired by the Domestic Policy Council.

During his speech, the president touched several of the task force’s objectives, such as “promoting compliance with best practices for mental health and substance use disorder parity implementation; advancing access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment; and developing additional agency guidance as needed.”

Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hopes to broaden access to substance use and mental health services for people who are on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans.

In an attempt to fight heroin use and overdose, the Office of National Drug Control Policy will partner with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program to add Ohio and Michigan to the effort. This means that local partnerships will be established between law enforcement and their correspondents in public health.

On Monday, the Department of Agriculture unveiled a Rural Health and Safety Education Grant Program that hopes to combat substance use disorders in rural communities. The initiative focuses on the challenges that occur in relation to substance addiction in rural communities in the U.S.

HHS will keep funding syringe services programs that help people who inject drugs, as the administration hopes to prevent viral hepatitis and HIV.

Last but not least, over 60 medical schools will start requiring students to take up any form of prescribing education beginning in fall 2016. This will account for the clinicians’ part in addressing the country’s growing opioid epidemic.
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An experienced journalist, who celebrated 20 years since graduating from the University of Montana not so long ago, Jack enjoys tackling crucial world problems. Throughout his career, Jack has gone from writing sports columns to covering world-changing events. “In all these years” -says Jack- “that I fell in love with the media and the freedom it promises”. Jack has a keen interest in the US political scene as well as the tense circumstances of the Middle East.

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