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Early-Career and Graduating Physicians More Likely to Prescribe Buprenorphine

2020

AUTHOR(S)
Peterson, Lars E
Morgan, Zachary J
Eden, Aimee R
TOPIC(S)
What Family Physicians Do
KEYWORD(S)
JABFM Policy Brief
Mental Health Care
VOLUME
33(1):7-8

Using data from 2016 to 2018, we demonstrate a sharp increase in graduating family medicine residents and early-career family physicians who intend to or actually prescribe buprenorphine with no change in mid-to-late-career physicians. Family physicians are responding to the opioid crisis but, growing the family medicine workforce to treat opioid-use disorder will require a larger response from mid-to-late-career physicians.

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