Experts: Lack of data hampering response to opioid crisis

Faster and deeper access to data involving opioid addiction would boost health care ’s response, officials said during a forum Monday afternoon on the opioid epidemic. State laws that restrict the dissemination of medical records of people who are being treated for addiction help reduce the stigma they face, but two medical doctors and an addiction-services CEO on the panel said the restrictions also make it difficult to coordinate care and to know which treatments are most effective. Dr. Michael…
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