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SUBMITTER: Olfson M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9097821 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olfson Mark M Zhang Victoria V Schoenbaum Michael M King Marissa M
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20200601 6
Substantial increases in opioid-related morbidity and mortality have motivated the implementation of federal policies to expand the buprenorphine prescribing capacity of primary care providers and other clinicians. Using a national prescription database that covered 72-92 percent of the US population during 2010-18, we analyzed trends in buprenorphine treatment by prescriber specialty. Buprenorphine treatment rates by primary care providers increased from 12.9 people per 10,000 population in 201 ...[more]