Addiction Treatment: Medicaid Limits Access to Medications for Painkiller Addicts

Published July 18, 2013

Medicaid limits access to medications for painkiller addicts
Filed under: Addiction Treatment

To Mark Publicker, a doctor in Portland, Maine, who practices addiction medicine, it’s a clear case of discrimination. You wouldn’t deprive a diabetic of insulin. You wouldn’t stop giving hypertension drugs to a patient with high blood pressure after successful treatment. You wouldn’t hold back a statin from a patient with high cholesterol.
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