Partnership to End Addiction
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MATE Act
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Addiction is one of the biggest public health crises in our country,
but health care providers receive minimal training to address it. Most
health care providers do not know what to do when a patient has a
substance use disorder and are unequipped to identify, treat and
manage a common life-threatening disease that is both preventable and
treatable.
Health care professionals should be trained to treat addiction as they
do any other complex disease. At a minimum, prescribers must have a
working understanding of addiction before they are permitted to
prescribe addictive narcotics.
Ask your members of Congress to cosponsor the Medication Access and
Training Expansion (MATE) Act, which would require prescribers to
undergo training on substance use disorder before receiving or
renewing their license to prescribe controlled substances. This would
help integrate addiction care with the mainstream health care system,
ensuring patients and families can turn to their trusted health care
provider when seeking advice or treatment for addiction, just as they
would for any other disease.
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People and families struggling with substance use and addiction
encounter a variety of systemic challenges throughout their journey,
which is why we created a new section of our website called "Help Us
Change the Story of Addiction." The site features personal stories
that bring these structural barriers to life, including
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Bill Williams's story about a pediatrician's office being
entirely unprepared to handle his son's overdose. Each story
offers visitors an opportunity to advocate for policy change by
signing an action alert or by sharing similar stories from their own
journey.
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Let's change the story of addiction today.
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