STAT: Congress should listen to addiction patients — not corporate interests — about confidentiality

https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/13/congress-addiction-patients-health-records-privacy/

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If policymakers want to address this crisis, they must focus on a basic but essential question: How do we encourage people with addictions to discuss their problematic substance use with the medical community? In seeking answers to that question, policymakers would be wise to listen to those closest to the problem — patients and people in recovery.