The AMA has provided detailed policy recommendations focused on pain, opioid use disorder (OUD) and harm reduction to help states and others during the COVID-19 global outbreak. Examples of states, physicians and others implementing these types of recommendations and taking specific actions to help patients include:
As part of detailed recommendations from state government in Washington, New Jersey and Ohio, clinics are being provided options for patients such as curbside and “doorstep” deliveries of methadone and buprenorphine as suggestions for patients who are quarantined or isolated because of COVID-19 or are older with severe health issues.
Source: American Medical Association
