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COVID-19 has had a ripple effect on various aspects of society, and the ongoing epidemic of substance abuse and overdoses is no different. Recently, the American Medical Association released its “National Roadmap on State-Level Efforts to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic” — a report focused on policy and planning to deal with substance abuse disorders, chronic pain issues and overdoses. All of these already-existing problems, the report acknowledges, have been complic...

How Can Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Parity Laws Help Battle the Overdose Epidemic? Learn the Answers—and Catch Up on the Most Recent State and Federal Developments—at a New Webinar from the AMA and Manatt. Click Here to Register Free. The American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health partnered to create the “National Roadmap on State-Level Efforts to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic”—a new policy roadmap for 2021 that highlights state progress over t...

Potentially criminal liability for women seeking to make decisions about their own bodies and that sacred right to our privacy and person is being jeopardized by kennedys retirement today. >> wendy, something youve spotlighted for a long time. well put up on the screen. in many states this was 84 restrictions enacted over the past year and a half since trump took office. these are state level efforts. some of them are constitutional under the way the supreme court and that kennedy opinion allows...

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