The Opioid Crisis and Telemedicine - McDermott Will & Emery

The Opioid Crisis and Telemedicine

Overview


Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Ryan Marcus and Marshall Jackson Jr. wrote this bylined article on how a declaration of a public health emergency in the opioid epidemic could eliminate one of the key barriers to the use of telemedicine as a tool in the fight against opioid addiction by allowing providers to remotely prescribe controlled substances for treating addicted patients without first conducting an in-person visit.