The Legal Landscape for Opioid Treatment Agreements
LARISA SVIRSKY,
DANA HOWARD,
MARTIN FRIED
et al.
Abstract:Policy Points
Opioid treatment agreements (OTAs) are controversial because of the lack of evidence that their use reduces opioid‐related harms and the potential risks they pose of stigmatizing patients and undermining the clinician–patient relationship.
Even so, their use is now required in most jurisdictions, and their use is influencing the outcomes of civil and criminal lawsuits.
More research is needed to evaluate how OTAs are implemented given existing requirements. If additional research does not resolve… Show more
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