In Rural Areas, Buprenorphine Waiver Adoption Since 2017 Driven By Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants

Few patients with opioid use disorder receive medication for addiction treatment. In 2017 the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act enabled nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to obtain federal waivers allowing them to prescribe buprenorphine, a key medication for opioid use...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2019-12, Vol.38 (12), p.2048-2056
Main Authors: Barnett, Michael L., Lee, Dennis, Frank, Richard G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Addictions
Assistants
Buprenorphine
Buprenorphine - therapeutic use
Collaboration
Counties
Databases, Factual
Disease control
Doctors' assistants
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug overdose
Drug Prescriptions
Drugs
Health care
Health care policy
Humans
Internet
Medical personnel
Methadone
Mortality
Narcotics
Nurse practitioners
Nurse Practitioners - statistics & numerical data
Nurse Practitioners - supply & distribution
Nurses
Opiate Substitution Treatment
Opioid-Related Disorders - drug therapy
Opioids
Patients
Physician assistants
Physician Assistants - statistics & numerical data
Physician Assistants - supply & distribution
Physicians
Physicians - statistics & numerical data
Physicians - supply & distribution
Population
Practitioner patient relationship
Primary care
Psychiatry
Regulation
Rural areas
Rural communities
Rural Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Rural Population
Scope of practice
Scope of Practice - legislation & jurisprudence
Substance abuse treatment
Substance use disorder
Waivers
Workforce
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