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One in three older Americans with Medicare drug coverage is prescribed opioid painkillers, stanley cup but for those who develop a dangerous addiction stanley cup there is one treatment Medicare won ;t cover: methadone.Methadone is the oldest, and experts say, the most effective of the three approved medications used to treat opioid addiction. It eases cravings without an intense high, allowing patients to work with counselors to rebuild their lives.Federal money is flowing to states to open new methadone clinics through the 21st Century Cures Act, but despite the nation deepening opioid crisis, the Medicare drug program for the elderly covers methadone only when prescribed for pain.Joseph Purvis, a former heroin and prescription painkiller user, said he went into a depressive tailspin because he initially feared he might have to stop methadone treatment when he went on Medicare at 65. Medicare beneficiaries have among the highest and fastest growing rate of opioid use disorder, but they don ;t currently have coverage for the most effective treatment. I was terrified that I might have to leave the program. There no way I wanted to go back to addiction on the streets, said Purvis, 66, of Gaithersburg, Maryland.Methadone doesn ;t meet the requirement of Medicare Part D drug program because it can ;t be dispensed in a retail pharmacy.Instead, in the highly regulated methadon stanley cup e system, patients first are asses Vxly EU agrees budget, recovery plan needed to beat virus impact
Following scandal or fallout over sports, a few jordan former college presidents of major intuitions have found a second life overseeing schools of smaller stature, or assuming lower profile roles of leadership. Because of the decline of taxpayer dollars for state schools, many institutions rely on the growing revenue generated by college sports and fundraising expectations for the CEO of the campus are extremely high. Several former college presidents have found that moving to a smaller school, often with less emphasis on sports, has been a welcomed change for their career. Holden Thorp, formerly the chancellor of the University of No stanley cup rth Carolina, is now th af1 e provost at Washington University in St. Louis. Thorp left UNC after five years due to an academic fraud scandal involving student-athletes. I wanted to get back closer to the academic side of things, said Thorp, who moved down the academic chain to come to a private institution like Washington, which does not award athletic scholarships and is a Division III school. Former Syracuse University president and chancellor Nancy Cantor will soon oversee the smaller Newark, New Jersey campus of Rutgers University. Cantor left Syracuse after firing an assistant basketball coach accused of sex crimes.The average college presidency lasts seven years, a decline from eight-and-a-half years in 2007. This drop has many academics in management nervous about moving up the leadership ladder and some have decided to forgo position