In 2021, drug-related overdose deaths topped 107,000.¹ Despite a nearly 50% decrease in opioid prescribing over the past decade, drug overdose mortality continues to trend in the opposite direction.² In particular, drug-related deaths have disproportionately impacted Black, American Indian, Native Alaskan Americans and young people.

The staggering data drives home the need for evidence-based policy and leadership to reduce drug-related overdoses. The American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health released a national policy roadmap in December 2020 with detailed recommendations for policymakers. In 2022, the AMA and Manatt launched a more comprehensive state toolkit that identified specific laws, regulations and other initiatives that demonstrated success. Now, in a new webinar, we highlight leading physicians, other health care professionals and advocates taking action across the six areas that were the focus of our reports:

• Increasing access to evidence-based treatments to help patients with a substance use disorder (SUD)
• Ensuring access to addiction medicine, psychiatry and other trained physicians
• Improving access to multidisciplinary, multimodal care for patients with pain
• Enforcing mental health and SUD parity laws
• Expanding harm reduction efforts to reduce death and disease
• Enhancing public health data surveillance, monitoring and evaluation

Even if you can’t make our live program on December 12, click here to register free now, and you’ll receive a link to view the webinar on demand.

Moderators:

• Joel Ario, Managing Director, Manatt Health
• Daniel Blaney-Koen, Senior Legislative Attorney, AMA

Panelists:

• Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, former AMA President; Chair, AMA Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force
• Bobby Mukkamala, MD, Immediate Past Chair, AMA Board of Trustees; Chair, AMA Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force

_{¹ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm}

_{² IQVIA Xponent limited to retail pharmacy dispensed prescriptions.}

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