
OpinionMarch 12, 2024
Medicaid Expansion Alone Isn’t Enough to Stop the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Expanding the state and federal insurance program helps prevent overdoses. But that only happens with enough treatment, and legal reform, to make it work
Danielle Haley is an assistant professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her research expertise centers social determinants of health, with a focus on how features of the social and built environment, especially health policies, shape health and health care utilization among people with, or at increased risk for, HIV.

Medicaid Expansion Alone Isn’t Enough to Stop the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Expanding the state and federal insurance program helps prevent overdoses. But that only happens with enough treatment, and legal reform, to make it work