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April 16, 2021

Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics and Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weekly prescriptions for opioid analgesics to new patients were at 66% of the level that would have been normally projected during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic from March to May 2020, but rebounded to 100% by August, according to a cross-sectional study (>90 US million patients). Weekly prescriptions for buprenorphine for opioid use…

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