Medicaid expansions linked to slower rises in overdose deaths

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In a study examining the potential impact of 2001-02 Medicaid expansions by Arizona, Maine and New York -- expansions that occurred just prior to the rise in overdose mortality nationwide -- researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that from the time of these expansions through 2008, overdose mortality rates (mostly driven by fatal overdoses of opioids) rose significantly less in the expansion states than in non-expansion states.

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