USA It Took a Pandemic to Improve Some People’s Access to Opioid Addiction Meds
USA It Took a Pandemic to Improve Some People’s Access to Opioid Addiction Meds
(…) Prescribing laws around such medications are stringent, particularly for opioid-based therapies like buprenorphine and methadone, but the federal government recently relaxed many regulations as part of the attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. (…)
When those changes took effect, Kinkle (…) hit the streets. Armed with a smartphone, he began offering people the chance to engage with a doctor right then and there—and walk away with a buprenorphine script. He obviously wasn’t happy about the pandemic, he was just excited to finally have the ability to offer people truly low-barrier, evidence-based treatment—the way it should always be. (Filter Magazine, USA, 25.03.2020)
https://filtermag.org/coronavirus-opioid-addiction-medication/