The opioid epidemic in the United States has worsened as treatment and drug rehabilitation centers have become difficult to have access to. Treatment and rehab services can be expensive, therefore not everyone, especially the poor that have opioid addictions, can have access to treatment.  For example, in the New York Times article Medina (2017), states that people without adequate insurance, like the less privileged, can have difficulty obtaining a room in a drug rehabilitation center in Los Angeles which can total to about $50,000 (p. 3).  It is clear that treatment is not cheap and those that don’t have proper insurance would be most affected by it.  However, this issue is becoming apparent as it has caught the attention of the government officials.  According to Governor Maggie Hassan,”We know we need to….increase access to treatment in New Hampshire, and that really boils down to making sure we reauthorize our Medicaid expansion program (as cited in Woodruff, 2016, p. 24).  Not only are people aware that it is a problem, but they are seeing that accessibility is an issue and they need to figure out a way to fix this.