Changes are good for OTPs and patients

Not for the first time, the changes opioid treatment programs (OTPs) must make to comply with new regulations have been praised by OTPs themselves. Mark Parrino, president of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence told ADAW last week that most of the states' OTPs are already in compliance. Patti Juliana, Ph.D., who heads the federal Division of Pharmacologic Therapies at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, told him that 44 states are in alignment and compliance with the new rules. She meets with the State Opioid Treatment Authorities regularly. We caught up with Parrino at the COMPA Symposium in Schenectady, New York this month.