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Rural Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Depends on Family Physicians

Description
Brief description of a study examining distribution of physicians approved to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, by specialty and rurality. Features breakdowns by family medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, and all other specialties, and by urban or rural location.
Author(s)
Peter Wingrove, Brian Park, Andrew Bazemore
Citation
American Family Physician, 94(7), 546
Date
10/2016
Type
Document
Organization
Robert Graham Center
Tagged as
Illicit drug use · Physicians · Prescription drug misuse · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data

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