The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
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Opioid Research In The June Issue
Two papers in the June issue discuss opioids.
In one, Christopher Moore Worsham and colleagues studied opioid prescribing for adolescents in the emergency department. They found that opioid prescribing rates increased gradually with age but exhibited a discontinuous increase at age eighteen, with negative consequences.
"Adults just above age eighteen were 9.7 percent more likely to receive an opioid prescription and 12.6 percent more likely to have the composite outcome of new opioid use disorder, long-term opioid use, or overdose," they
conclude.
In another article, Barbara Andraka-Christou analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in the use of medication for opioid use disorder, which is considered the gold standard of care. She explains that "buprenorphine treatment is largely unavailable to people of color—the very people who could most benefit from its lower stigma."
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Soeren Mattke and Hankyung Jun discuss aducanumab and how the so-called "lesser of" Medicaid policy may make this new Alzheimer’s treatment economically nonviable for administration in physician offices.
Also, William Sage argues that the Supreme Court's recent decision in California v. Texas should be reassuring news for health care reformers.
Yesterday the Biden administration issued its first proposed rule on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, providing insight into its priorities for the marketplaces and the ACA more broadly. In a new blog post, Katie Keith unpacks the rule. Elevating Voices: Pride Month: A June 2016 Health Affairs Blog post by Kellan Baker discussed the historic rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights confirming that Affordable Care Act Section 1557 prohibits discrimination against LGBT people in health insurance coverage and health care.
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Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Sarah James, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, on the effects of adolescent exposure to deadly gun violence.
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