WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are urging the Trump Administration to prioritize expanding access to medication-assisted treatment - the gold standard for treating opioid addiction - as part of its new initiative on addiction recovery.
"Medication is the clinical gold-standard for treating opioid addiction," wrote the Senators. "We ask that you work with us to make sure that clinicians can readily provide this treatment, to ensure that patients can access and afford these medications, and to do all that we can to reduce the pervasive stigma surrounding addiction trea...