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EDs and patient navigators key to starting and continuing buprenorphine

Alison Knopf

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, 2025

Abstract

Emergency department clinicians increased their prescriptions for buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in California from 2017 to 2022, researchers have found. However, only 1 in 9 patients went on to receive continuous buprenorphine prescriptions within 1 year.

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