Stakeholders Leverage DEA Chief’s Drug Trafficking Enforcement To Lobby For OUD Treatment Via Telehealth

By Cara Smith / July 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Telehealth.org is playing up newly confirmed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Administrator Terry Cole’s background on combating drug trafficking to emphasize telehealth’s role in curbing opioid abuse, as stakeholders push for creation of a special registration for virtual prescribing of controlled substances before flexibilities expire at the end of the calendar year.



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