{"id":77406,"date":"2017-02-01T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77406"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:37:42","slug":"stirpe-commends-settlement-to-expand-access-for-opioid-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77406","title":{"rendered":"Stirpe commends settlement to expand access for opioid treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43068\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=43068\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43068\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43068\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg?resize=226%2C222\" alt=\"Al Stirpe\" width=\"226\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg?w=226&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg?resize=150%2C147&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Stirpe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"m_8819538336708080863Default\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging news that Attorney General Schneiderman has settled a suit with health insurance provider Anthem to end their policy of requiring prior authorization for <\/em>medication-assisted\u00a0 treatment<em> for substance use disorder. Expanded access to treatment for New Yorkers with opioid and heroin addiction is a critical step in the right direction.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Those working to overcome addiction should not be burdened by health insurance red tape on the road to recovery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8819538336708080863Default\"><em><u><\/u><u><\/u>It has been a priority of mine in the Legislature to expand access to life-saving medication like Narcan and inpatient services to treat drug dependence, and I continue to support measures to protect the health and well-being of Central New Yorkers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging news that Attorney General Schneiderman has settled a suit with health insurance provider Anthem to end their policy of requiring prior authorization for medication-assisted\u00a0 treatment for substance use disorder. Expanded access to treatment for New Yorkers with opioid and heroin addiction is a critical step in the right direction. Those working to overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-k8u","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg?fit=226%2C222&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}