The Washington Post: Biden
Moving To Nix Trump Plan On Opioid-Treatment Prescriptions
The Biden administration is preparing to halt a last-minute plan by the Trump
administration to let more physicians prescribe an opioid-treatment drug, said
three officials with knowledge of the pending announcement, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plan.
The Trump plan had been hailed by physicians as loosening requirements they
said had slowed their response to the nation’s worsening opioid crisis.
Then-presidential candidate Joe Biden also criticized the prescribing rules and
vowed to lift them if elected president. But some legal experts warned that the
Department of Health and Human Services lacked the authority to issue
guidelines that allowed physicians to avoid requirements mandated by Congress.
(Diamond and Bernstein, 1/25)
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