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Newsbrief:
US
Senate
to
Consider
Lifting
Buprenorphine
Restrictions
2/13/04
Buprenorphine, a drug that
has proven successful in treating heroin addiction, may be about to be
more widely used. Buprenorphine has been used in the United States
since 2000, when the Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA) allowed certified
physicians to subscribe the drug in their offices (https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/146/buprenorphine.shtml).
But DATA only allowed group
practices to treat 30 patients at a time, and federal regulators interpreted
the language broadly, so that HMOs and whole academic medical centers were
interpreted as group practices.
Now, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
has introduced a bill that would eliminate the cap on the number of patients
that could be treated. Sens. Joe Biden (D-DE) and Carl Levin (D-MI)
joined Hatch, the powerful chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in
cosponsoring the bill, S. 1887. The bill is currently before the
Judiciary Committee.
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Issue #324, 2/13/04
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DRCNet Interview: Chuck Thomas and Troy Dayton, Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative |
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Action Alert: HEA Campaign Entering New Stage -- Your Letters and Phone Calls Needed! |
Newsbrief: Legalization Talk in Trinidad |
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Newsbrief: Australian Federal Government Issues Threat to Stop New Safe Injection Sites |
Newsbrief: Prohibitionist Sweden Sees Drug Deaths Climb |
Newsbrief: Philadelphia Drug War Reality Tour Hits the Airwaves, Internet |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story |
Newsbrief: US Senate to Consider Lifting Buprenorphine Restrictions |
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