“Concerns about the current epidemic of opioid- related deaths have focused attention on physician prescribing patterns and deficiencies in the training of the clinical workforce.
Corresponding attention to the lack of access to medications for addiction treatment, primarily buprenorphine and methadone, has generated increased funding for both treatment and post-graduate clinician education and a broad range of new legislative proposals.
One common suggestion has been to eliminate the training requirements for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) buprenorphine waiver, and more recently, calls to change the methadone regulations and permit the prescription of methadone in office-based settings similar that permitted for buprenorphine.”
Read more at: http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/399867-some-treatment-options-for-opioid-epidemic-risk-serious-unintended
Source: TheHill.com – August 4, 2018
