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New Podcast Episode: Criminal Justice Reform

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If there’s one thing Tennesseans can agree on, it’s that the criminal justice system needs some improvements.  In the summer of 2021, the Reentry Success Act and Alternatives to Incarceration Act passed; at the same time telehealth permissions expanded.  Jeremy talks with Judge Duane Slone and Dr. Stephen Loyd about

Guest Column: Telehealth can help thousands of recovering Tennesseans by adding more online medical providers

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Read the full article at The Tennessean. In 2020, there were only 1,007 providers in Tennessee capable of prescribing buprenorphine, a safe and effective medication for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD).  However, in that same year it was estimated that at least 70,000 Tennesseans had OUD. While this

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