Less Than Half of U.S. Pharmacies Carry One of the Most Effective Drugs for Opioid Abuse
These risks make effective treatments indispensable. However, one of the most successful treatments for opioid dependence—buprenorphine—is difficult to get at most pharmacies across the country, according to a new study publishedResearchers conducted secret-shopper phone calls to nearly 5,000 pharmacies in 11 states from 2020 to 2021 and found that buprenorphine, an opioid-dependence drug that has been shown toopioid users’ risk of dying, was readily available in less than half of them.
Buprenorphine, which is commonly dispensed as Suboxone is crucial for many patients with opioid use disorder and is often favored over the two other medications available, methadone and naltrexone. Unlike methadone, buprenorphine can be legally prescribed outside of an opioid treatment program. And compared to patients using naltrexone—which blocks the effects of opioids—it’s easier to initiate, because patients.
Despite the drug’s efficacy, it’s been tightly regulated since it was first approved for opioid use disorder 20 years ago—in part, because buprenorphine itself is an opioid and has potential for abuse. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has recently
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