Michigan plans to expand coverage of opioid addiction treatment and overdose-reversal medicine for hundreds of thousands of state residents in 2022, something experts say will limit the number of people who die from using the powerful drugs.
Two tools – naloxone, a medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose, and buprenorphine, medicine that can help people manage their addictions – are key to treating patients living with opioid addictions and save lives, said Dr. Lewei Allison Lin, assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School who specializes in addiction treatment.
“These are some of the only treatments we have in all of mental health care that have been directly shown to be associated with reduced death rates,” she said.
Source: Lansing State Journal
