WASHINGTON ― During his term as the director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli argued that the end of the opioid epidemic would not come about through arrests. In Maryland, it has helped treatment facilities better integrate primary and mental health care. According to Health and Human Services data, more and more people are coming into care with insurance. “Our response to this opioid epidemic has largely been focusing on ‘How do we narrow that treatment gap?’” Botticelli said. What it would mean for those in a long-term residential program that they’re paying for with health insurance they got via the ACA?

Source: Huffington Post January 26, 2017 16:45 UTC