Barriers Rural Physicians Face Prescribing Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

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Examines the barriers rural physicians who hold Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) waivers to prescribe buprenorphine face. Seeks to explain why some rural physicians who hold a DEA waiver choose not to prescribe buprenorphine or treat a fewer number of patients than their waiver allows. Data was collected through a 2016 survey of all physicians with DEA waivers in rural areas.

C. Holly A. Andrilla, Cynthia Coulthard, Eric H. Larson

Annals of Family Medicine, 15(4), 359-362

07/2017

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