New Mexico’s Medicaid Program to Cover Methadone for Opioid Addiction

State Finally Recognizes Methadone Maintenance Therapy as one of the Most Effective Treatments for Opioid Dependence and a Proven Way to Reduce Overdose Deaths

SANTA FE, NM–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2012.  Starting September 1, the state of New Mexico’s Medicaid Program will begin to reimburse for outpatient Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT). New Mexico will join approximately 30 other states in offering Medicaid coverage for MMT.

Although Methadone Maintenance Therapy is but a single piece of a comprehensive…