Early-Career and Graduating Physicians More Likely to Prescribe Buprenorphine.

Peterson, Lars E; Morgan, Zachary J; Eden, Aimee R · J Am Board Fam Med · 2020

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Abstract

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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