HHS Proposes Increasing Access to Opioid Treatment

Opioid analgesics — a class of prescription drugs used to treat both acute and chronic pain — have increasingly been implicated in drug overdose deaths over the last decade. Common opioid analgesics include hydrocodone, oxycodone, codeine, morphine, and methadone. In a proposed rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced, March 29, its plan to allow […]