Opinion: For addiction treatment, longer is better. But insurance companies usually cut it short
Access to treatment for addiction has long plagued U.S. health systems. Why? Two reasons: It is expensive, and the long-term value of addiction treatment is often disregarded by insurance companies and other payers.
Its dirty little secret is that access to treatments that work are available to the few who can pay for it — as I once needed to do — while millions of Americans get substandard treatment or none at all.
