| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Verschiedenes
USA. Telemedicine For Addiction Treatment? Picture Remains Fuzzy
USA. Telemedicine For Addiction Treatment? Picture Remains Fuzzy
When President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, it came with a regulatory change intended to make it easier for people to get care. The declaration allows for doctors to prescribe addiction medicine virtually, without ever seeing the patient in person.
In Indiana, this kind of virtual visit has been legal since early 2017. So I called about a dozen addiction specialists in Indiana to find out how it was going. But no one had heard of doctors using telemedicine for opioid addiction treatment until I ran across Dr. Jay Joshi. (NPR – National Public Radio, USA, 24.11.2017)