
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
Hannah L. F. Cooper holds the Rollins Chair in Substance Use Disorders Research at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the structural determinants of drug-related harms and of inequities in those harms.

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