Ep 107 100,000 Deaths a Year in US - Opioid Crisis - Preventable Epidemic with Arun Gupta, MD
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Here are a few short Takeaways from the conversation with Dr. Gupta The Evolution of U.S. Addiction Treatment Policies So like I said, the doctors were not being trained in addiction. In the year 1999, CDC for the very first time reported that 16,000 people have died of poisoning. 106th Congress studied that problem for a year and a half, and a law was passed called Data 2000. It allowed any practicing doctor to take a course, pass an exam, apply for an X waiver, and then they were qualified as addiction providers. That's how I started learning in 2006. So the law states In the first year, after you do all these steps, you are allowed 30 patients per month for the first year, expandable to 100 thereafter. Okay? And that law stayed like that until 2016. And the crisis took a hit in 2016. Several meetings happened in Washington, and they said, We can let doctors take 275 patients, but they put more restrictions, use the EMR, this, that stuff, seven different conditions. Currently 4,300 doctors in this country have a limit of 275.
Ep 107 100,000 Deaths a Year in US - Opioid Crisis - Preventable Epidemic with Arun Gupta, MD
Ep 107 100,000 Deaths a Year in US - Opioid…
Ep 107 100,000 Deaths a Year in US - Opioid Crisis - Preventable Epidemic with Arun Gupta, MD
Here are a few short Takeaways from the conversation with Dr. Gupta The Evolution of U.S. Addiction Treatment Policies So like I said, the doctors were not being trained in addiction. In the year 1999, CDC for the very first time reported that 16,000 people have died of poisoning. 106th Congress studied that problem for a year and a half, and a law was passed called Data 2000. It allowed any practicing doctor to take a course, pass an exam, apply for an X waiver, and then they were qualified as addiction providers. That's how I started learning in 2006. So the law states In the first year, after you do all these steps, you are allowed 30 patients per month for the first year, expandable to 100 thereafter. Okay? And that law stayed like that until 2016. And the crisis took a hit in 2016. Several meetings happened in Washington, and they said, We can let doctors take 275 patients, but they put more restrictions, use the EMR, this, that stuff, seven different conditions. Currently 4,300 doctors in this country have a limit of 275.