IMPORTANT: BIDEN Administration loosens restrictions on prescribing for Opioid Use Disorder
Posted almost 3 years ago by Victoria Eftychiou in Legislative
The Biden administration has loosened restrictions on prescribing medication to treat opioid use disorder Tuesday in a move to increase access as overdose deaths have climbed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday released federal guidelines that allow more providers to prescribe buprenorphine and nix the eight-hour training requirement to prescribe the drug. For years, experts have said that the “X-waiver” needed to prescribe the drug creates an unnecessary hurdle to treating opioid addiction.
See the Federal Guidelines: