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Online addiction care for opioids and alcohol — on your terms.

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This #NationalRecoveryMonth is about celebrating recovery your way. There is no right way or single path. People thrive when they are given the choice to blaze their own trail and find what works for them.

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🌟 2 years in a row – Boulder joins the ranks of the fastest growing companies recognized Inc. Magazine. We’re just getting started #Inc5000

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Cuts to Medicaid means millions stand to lose essential health coverage. 80% of Boulder Care patients seeking recovery from opioid and alcohol addiction are covered by Medicaid. You cannot slash Medicaid and also claim to be fighting America's overdose crisis.

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👋 Boulder Care here. We are in partnership with Medicaid plans to ensure patients with substance use disorders retain their coverage. Companies like ours (treating 80% Medicaid patients) must innovate new solutions and work with Medicaid to protect our patients.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

Why aren't Medicaid expansion states discussing using AI to quickly simplify all qualification and requalification requirements that will cost 10m people their coverage ? Why aren't Dems pushing solutions that blunt many of the obstacles introduced to reduce coverage ?

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Today Medicaid Turns 60. That's 60 years of providing essential health coverage to millions of Americans. The promise to care for every American regardless of their income is under threat by new legislation. There is still time to make noise save Medicaid from disastrous cuts.

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15 miles: the average one-way distance that patients with opioid addiction have to travel to get to a methadone clinic. Patients in rural areas report traveling over 60 miles for care. There simply is not enough addiction medicine out there. Telehealth can help fill these gaps.

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An investigation found that nalmefene is being intensely promoted to police departments across the US. Health experts sounded the alarm that this drug could precipitate a horrifying withdrawal that could do real damage and harm to people who use drugs. www.vermontpublic.org/2025-02-03/h...

vermontpublic.orgHealth experts alarmed at new overdose drug marketed to WMass police departmentsPublic health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found a vocal ally in its marketing of the drug: police.
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Meet Crystal, a peer at Boulder Care. In this interview she reflects on her own experience being in recovery while taking Suboxone, and the social pressure she felt to quickly taper off of it. Now at Boulder she works with patients who might be navigating stigma toward medication treatment.

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Lev Facher
@levfacher.bsky.social

RFK says he supports methadone and buprenorphine — but majorly misrepresents a study that he claimed shows 12-step programs are more effective vs. opioid addiction (The study was exclusively about alcohol!) www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/r...

statnews.comRFK Jr. endorses medications for opioid addiction at confirmation hearing, but misleads on 12-step programsDuring his Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. shed light for the first time on his attitudes toward medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction.

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Maia Szalavitz
@maiasz.bsky.social

I'm interviewed in this, discussing why work farms aren't a great new idea to solve addiction & why personal experience alone isn't policy expertise www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

npr.orgRFK Jr. says he'll fix the overdose crisis. Critics say his plan is riskyRobert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, he'll build treatment "farms" to help people recover.
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Some important caveats: Only 60 attempts (34%) were successful in using low-dose initiation. These findings may not be generalizable, cohort had high rates of fentanyl inhalation, methamphetamine use, and unstable housing.

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A lesson from the Final Rule Expansion of Buprenorphine Treatment via Telemedicine: Speaking your truth has an impact. Patients, providers, researchers and advocates, sent thousands upon thousands of comments urging the federal government to protect telemedicine access to bupe -- they listened.

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That was the impetus behind the Keep Our Cure project. Thanks to our patients for sharing their story about the difference that telemedicine for SUD makes in their lives. It's important to keep sharing your story. We are listening. keepourcure.com

keepourcure.comKeep Our Cure | Protect access to buprenorphineKeep Our Cure is a campaign advocating for protecting access to buprenorphine prescribing through telemedicine. This campaign is presented by Boulder Care, a digital clinic providing medication, resou...
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"High-intensity drinking" is considered more dangerous than binge drinking. It occurs when women consume eight or more drinks in a row and 10 or more drinks in a row for men.

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Maia Szalavitz
@maiasz.bsky.social

more harm, less harm reduction: why the fall in overdose deaths is not being seen in Black, Brown and American Indian communities, my latest www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o... special thanks to @rnbluthenthal.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social & Jon Zibbell & Dan Ciccarone

nytimes.comOpinion | Why Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping for Some, Rising for OthersDrug overdose deaths are finally declining. But it’s going to take work to keep this trend going.

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