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Improving Rural Access to Opioid Treatment Programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Quentin Johnson ,
Brian Mund  and
Paul J. Joudrey
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This article explores challenges to accessing opioid treatment programs in rural areas, and offers solutions that would ease these problems.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Law and the Opioid Crisis: An Inter-Disciplinary Examination , Summer 2018 , pp. 437 - 439
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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