TY - JOUR
KW - Analgesics, Opioid/administration & dosage/adverse effects
KW - Humans
KW - Jurisprudence
KW - Opiate Overdose/prevention & control
KW - Opioid Epidemic/prevention & control/trends
KW - Public Health/legislation & jurisprudence/methods/trends
KW - Telemedicine/legislation & jurisprudence/trends
KW - United States
AU - D. Pepin
AU - R. Hulkower
AU - R. F. McCord
A1 - 
AB - Opioid-involved drug overdose deaths have been a growing concern in the United States for several decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified several strategies to address the opioid overdose epidemic, including increased availability of and access to medication-assisted treatment and guidance on safer opioid prescribing practices. Telehealth offers the potential for increasing access and availability to these strategies, and laws governing telehealth have implications for their utilization. To understand how state telehealth laws intersect with the opioid overdose epidemic, we conducted a legal mapping study, a type of legal epidemiological assessment, of statutes and regulations that intersect at telehealth and opioids. This search yielded 28 laws from 17 states. These laws intersect both telehealth and the opioid overdose epidemic in different ways including prescribing limitations, opioid treatment through medication and counseling, patient plan review, and professional collaboration. Continued legal and policy surveillance is needed to be able to evaluate the impact of law in addressing opioid overdose outcomes.
AD - Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (Drs Pepin and Hulkower) and National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Dr McCord), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
BT - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
C5 - Healthcare Policy; HIT & Telehealth; Opioids & Substance Use
CP - 3
DO - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001036
IS - 3
JF - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
LA - eng
M1 - Journal Article
N2 - Opioid-involved drug overdose deaths have been a growing concern in the United States for several decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified several strategies to address the opioid overdose epidemic, including increased availability of and access to medication-assisted treatment and guidance on safer opioid prescribing practices. Telehealth offers the potential for increasing access and availability to these strategies, and laws governing telehealth have implications for their utilization. To understand how state telehealth laws intersect with the opioid overdose epidemic, we conducted a legal mapping study, a type of legal epidemiological assessment, of statutes and regulations that intersect at telehealth and opioids. This search yielded 28 laws from 17 states. These laws intersect both telehealth and the opioid overdose epidemic in different ways including prescribing limitations, opioid treatment through medication and counseling, patient plan review, and professional collaboration. Continued legal and policy surveillance is needed to be able to evaluate the impact of law in addressing opioid overdose outcomes.
PY - 2020
SN - 1550-5022; 1078-4659; 1078-4659
SP - 227
EP - 231
EP - 
T1 - How Are Telehealth Laws Intersecting With Laws Addressing the Opioid Overdose Epidemic?
T2 - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
TI - How Are Telehealth Laws Intersecting With Laws Addressing the Opioid Overdose Epidemic?
U1 - Healthcare Policy; HIT & Telehealth; Opioids & Substance Use
U2 - 31348152
U3 - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001036
VL - 26
VO - 1550-5022; 1078-4659; 1078-4659
Y1 - 2020
Y2 - May/Jun
ER -