MMA Urges Congress to Pass Legislation That Expands Access to Methadone

November 14, 2024

The MMA, along with nearly 130 other organizations, signed on to a letter on November 12 urging U.S. Congressional leadership to pass bipartisan legislation that expands access to methadone for opioid use disorder (OUD). 

The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (M-OTAA) would expand access to methadone treatment for OUD by “enabling board-certified addiction specialist physicians to prescribe it in their usual clinic settings, utilizing patients’ existing pharmacies, under the oversight of the same federal regulatory bodies that already ensure safety monitoring at OTPs,” the letter to House and Senate leadership said. 

Opioid overdoses account for more than 70,000 preventable deaths in America each year.  

For more information on the MMA’s efforts to curb the opioid epidemic, click here.  

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