Like pain clinics and pharmacies, practitioners treating substance use disorder appear to be a target for federal enforcers. Under President Trump’s administration and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, law enforcement is not expected to let up. Medication assisted treatment for addiction (MAT) is not a new source of regulation or enforcement, but practitioners have noticed a renewed focus there, along with some confusion.
Originally Published in the Birmingham Medical News - March 2017.
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