Differences in buprenorphine prescribing readiness among primary care professionals with and without X-waiver training in the US

• Main Authors: Berkeley Franz (Author), Lindsay Y. Dhanani (Author), O. Trent Hall (Author), Daniel L. Brook (Author), Janet E. Simon (Author), William C. Miller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...