‘New recovery’ changes everything for addicts, their loved ones

July 20, 2015

What helped promote, and even necessitate, this openness was The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, said Alexandra Lopez, assistant professor at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School, where she teaches “Drugs, Culture and Society.”

The law mandates that health insurance companies provide to those with mental health and substance use disorders all the benefits they provide for all other medical/surgical conditions.

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