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Mike Levin: “This clarification is important, both for the qualified physicians who wish to participate in this new approach to…”

On the recordDecember 15, 2000
This clarification is important, both for the qualified physicians who wish to participate in this new approach to addiction treatment and for patients for whom a new treatment option may present a life-changing possibility. I know my colleague from Utah agrees that we want this legislation to work. An unauthorized and ill-advised attempt to regulate the practice of medicine, including the practice of prescribing anti-addiction medication, would make it unworkable.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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