AHCA hurts fighting substance abuse

Dear Editor,

There has been plenty of discussion in public about the dangers repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with the American Health Care Act will have on people with pre-existing conditions.

But the dangers of the AHCA goes even deeper into the health care issues that are so often forgotten about — substance abuse.

Under the ACA (Obamacare) our country was beginning to take seriously the idea that substance abuse was a medical and mental health condition that is in need of treatment. Indeed, as we’ve seen the populations of our prisons rise due to substance abuse, it was h...