| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. The Number Needed to Prescribe — What Would It Take to Expand Access to Buprenorphine?
USA. The Number Needed to Prescribe — What Would It Take to Expand Access to Buprenorphine?
Policies have been proposed to remove obstacles to prescribing buprenorphine to people with opioid use disorder. But a larger barrier to treatment expansion is cultural: physicians and institutions fail to treat substance use disorders as the chronic diseases they are.
Elisabeth Poorman, M.D., M.P.H.
NEJM, May 8, 2021, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2101298