To: The New York State House, The New York State Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo
Saving Lives Act
Allow more Dr.s to treat patients with Suboxone.Allow for more funding to open and expand methadone clinic's to reduce the huge waiting lists that many die while waiting on due to lack of treatment availability. Help us help others.
Why is this important?
On average someone's dying every 13 minutes of overdose to heroin/opiates. Many of whom are under 21 yrs old. We NEED more doctors and more options for treatment and maintenance based treatment. Studies show that Suboxone and methadone based treatment saves lives.Unfortunately, there is just NOT enough programs to treat the growing numbers.We are advocating for funding to open more programs and ALLOW the cap of 100 patient's per provider to be increased to help serve the rapidly growing NEED!