Nonprofit service providers left out of Lamont s group home deal call it an injustice
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The nonprofit community agencies that contract with the state to provide a wide array of social services were quick to applaud nearly $200 million in new funding for nonprofits in the two-year state budget approved last week a meaningful plus-up that providers said would help address their longtime quest for increased state support.
That helped some of them, including workers at group homes for people with intellectual disabilities, who came within a day of striking earlier this month. But it leaves many agencies, and workers, out.
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January 28, 2021
Dr. Peter Jacoby
Days after a new report showed that fatal overdoses have skyrocketed to record highs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal Department of Health and Human Services has relaxed a regulation on prescribing addiction medication in an effort to combat the rising death toll.
Buprenorphine, a popular opioid addiction treatment drug, has long had its prescribing restricted by the federal government. Physicians must undergo special training to obtain what’s known as an “x-waiver” from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in order to prescribe the drug, which is itself an opioid.
Only a fraction of doctors in the country had x-waivers, and about half of waivered physicians didn’t prescribe buprenorphine to clients anyway.