Q&A: Practical Strategies to Overcome the Opioid Crisis

Opioid use disorder is now a national health crisis. Tasked with the responsibility to take action, states are looking for guidance on how to best tackle the epidemic. In this Governing Q&A, Lee Biersdorf, Vice President of General Management for Behavioral Health at Optum, and Dr. Martin Rosenzweig, Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Health at Optum, discuss the three pillars of an effective opioid intervention strategy.