Differences in buprenorphine prescribing readiness among primary care professionals with and without X-waiver training in the US
Abstract Background Medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) are effective at preventing overdose and infectious disease but are vastly under-prescribed in the US. For decades, prescribers faced additional training and regulation to prescribe buprenorphine which stigmatized the medication and lesse...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-12-01
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Series: | Harm Reduction Journal |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00918-3 |