The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 9.2 million people ages 12 and older had misused.
services secretary xavier becerra. nice to see you this morning. picking up with dr. narula just left off, if approved the fact that naloxone would be more accessible to more americans, what do you anticipate in terms of demand? erica, we know that the number of deaths from fentanyl continue to increase, we know that we re losing more americans today because of overdose. back in 2021 we changed our overdose prevention strategy because we didn t believe it was focused on 21st century challenges and so the harm reduction that you heard about just now, we re now trying to tackle that at a federal level as well, not just wait until the locals start to do it. we re trying to do everything we can to save a life and to reduce a level of harm that someone might inflect on themselves. so our efforts at the federal level are to boost what they re doing locally with tried and true systems that are in place, evidence-based systems that do save lives. locally what we re seeing, dr. narula menti
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Changes Would Make Permanent COVID-Timed Medication Flexibilities, and Update Decades-Old Definitions and Standards for Opioid Treatment Programs at a time when fewer than 1 out 10 Americans can access treatment for substance use disorder.