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  "textContent": "Medicaid insurance expansions between 2017 and 2023 sharply increased access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder in a period when fatal overdoses continued to climb, according to Rutgers Health researchers. Their study, published in JAMA Network Open, finds that expanded Medicaid coverage yielded meaningful population-level increases in the use of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder.",
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