Experts: Gillibrand’s opioid legislation is not 'the right way to do it' via YahooFinance
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s announced bipartisan legislation with Sen. Cory Gardner on opioids has been met with backlash on several levels.
Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad bad. Bad. ‘I don’t think this is the right way to do it’One expert critic of the proposed legislation is Dr. Ryan Marino, an emergency medical physician and medical toxicologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Gillibrand’s Medium post stressed that her bill would only apply to initial prescriptions, so those in need of refills for acute pain would receive them at the discretion of their doctor. However, Marino raised concerns about that aspect. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health and senior adviser for opioid policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, previously told Yahoo Finance that many factors play a role in how this opioid crisis came to be, including “the overprescription and inappropriate prescription” of opioid painkillers to patients, the “availability and importation” of low-price, high-potency drugs, and “the role of state and society” in allowing the opioid crisis to build.
However, Marino said that these laws in place “haven’t demonstrated any efficacy” in curbing addiction.
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