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Committee backs rules to protect patients on medication‑assisted treatment in residential programs
Summary
Senate Bill 65 would require the Office of Substance Use and Mental Health to create rules ensuring people on medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) are not forced off medications as a condition of entering or completing publicly funded residential treatment; the committee advanced the bill and later placed it on consent.
SALT LAKE CITY — The House Health and Human Services Committee voted to favorably recommend Senate Bill 65 (second substitute), which directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish rules for medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) in residential treatment programs and recovery residences that accept public funds.
Sponsor Senator Plumb told the committee the rules aim to prevent programs from requiring people who are stable on opioid‑use‑disorder medications…
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