Journal of Addiction Medicine, highlights the urgent need to eliminate discrimination in order to ensure that patients taking medications to treat opioid use disorder get access to the ongoing medical care they need.“These facilities are telling us openly that they are discriminating and violating the law, and many more are likely engaging in the same practices but not documenting it as openly for us to see,” added Kimmel.“We need to have more coordinated efforts to enforce the state and federal policies that prohibit these practices from occurring so that people are no longer being denied medical care.”In 2016, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued relevant guidance to post-acute care facilities.
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