{"id":9250,"date":"2021-04-16T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9250"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:55:02","slug":"prescribing-of-opioid-analgesics-and-buprenorphine-for-opioid-use-disorder-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/16\/prescribing-of-opioid-analgesics-and-buprenorphine-for-opioid-use-disorder-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics and Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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 (&gt;90 US million patients). Weekly prescriptions for buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) to new patients were at 82% of projected levels, but rebounded to 90% by August. For existing users, prescriptions for both opioid analgesics and buprenorphine for opioid use disorder largely followed pre-pandemic trends.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currie et al.\u00a0(Apr 15, 2021). Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics and Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2778564\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2778564<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 (&gt;90 US million patients). Weekly prescriptions for buprenorphine for opioid use&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/16\/prescribing-of-opioid-analgesics-and-buprenorphine-for-opioid-use-disorder-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,217],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","tag-opioids","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9251,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions\/9251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}