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Robyn Oster

Associate Director, Health Law and Policy

Robin Oster
Robyn Oster focuses on health policy related to addiction prevention and treatment. She assists with research related to insurance coverage for addiction treatment, improving parity compliance and enforcement, and state and federal responses to the opioid crisis. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Promoting Effective Use of Opioid Settlement Funds

We have used our research on effective, public health-based approaches to addressing substance use and addiction to provide recommendations for decisionmakers on spending the opioid settlement funds, specifically focused on effective prevention. 
SUD Prevention Policy Research
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Protecting Youth from the Harms of Legal Addictive Substances

We are working to help federal and state governments keep legal addictive substances out of the hands of young people by identifying effective youth protection provisions.
School-based SUD Prevention Policy Research Trainings
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