Program helps primary care practices expand access to opioid use disorder treatment

A multilevel program that provided support and resources to rural primary care practices was associated with an increase in buprenorphine prescriptions, data show.  Prior to the study, very few health care providers in rural Colorado, where the study was conducted, had the Drug Enforcement Administration’s waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, study co-author Linda Zittleman, MSPH, a senior instructor in the department of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio.