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Witnesses tell House panel Michigan’s mySUD treatment locator is unreliable and raises privacy concerns
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Testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Public Health and Food Security said Michigan’s state‑run mySUD treatment locator has usability, data‑completeness and privacy defects and urged MDHHS to halt promotion until fixes are made and community input is taken.
LANSING — Witnesses told a House Oversight Committee on Feb. 12 that Michigan’s state‑developed mySUD substance use disorder treatment locator is difficult to use, omits many evidence‑based outpatient services and collects tracking data that could expose people seeking care.
Jonathan Stoltman, director of the Opioid Policy Institute, told the committee that freedom‑of‑information responses show persistent development problems and internal feedback eight months before launch that remained unaddressed 16 months later. "The locator does not meet responsive design requirements of the state of Michigan 13 60 0.11," he said, and flagged the site’s use of cookies, advertising trackers and browser fingerprinting.
"Fingerprinting is especially troubling," Stoltman said, adding that such profiling cannot be controlled through ordinary browser…
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