Stephanie Colombini, WUSF

For People With Opioid Addiction, Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Raises the Stakes

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Medications such as methadone can cut the risk of a fatal opioid overdose in half. Medicaid covers the medication. But as state Medicaid programs reevaluated coverage of each enrollee following a pause in disenrollments during the covid-19 pandemic, some patients lost a crucial pillar of their sobriety.