Health Affairs September 30, 2025
Health Affairs’ Rob Lott interviews Stephen Crystal of Rutgers University about his recent paper exploring how states with substantial increases in buprenorphine uptake as an opioid use disorder treatment response grew alongside increased Medicaid prescribing from 2018–24.
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Rob Lott:
Hello, and welcome to a health podocy. I’m your host, Rob Lott. Friends, as you may know, at health affairs, this September is all about our brand new theme issue dedicated to understanding the opioid crisis, a relatively nebulous but unquestionably dire policy challenge. Now, one of the particularly distinctive characteristics of this crisis is just how long it’s been going on....
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