How Medicaid cuts may endanger US progress battling opioid addiction

Published July 2, 2025

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 quotes Joshua Lynch in an article about how Medicaid cuts will endanger the progress against the opioid epidemic. “Medicaid is a big, if not the biggest, player, and a huge factor in how people with opioid abuse disorder get care,” Lynch said. “Reducing access to care following a year where deaths have been reduced is absolutely not the right answer. The opioid epidemic continues to evolve, and we need to evolve our response.”

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