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Methadone treatment programs seek relief from restrictions on take-home buprenorphine.
Physicians are allowed to treat opioid addiction in the office because DATA gave them a federal waiver from the federal regulations which bind methadone treatment programs. And methadone treatment programs, having watched physician offices increasingly be promoted as the dispensers of buprenorphine, are now asking for regulatory relief. Instead of following the same restrictions for buprenorphine that they follow for methadone, they would like to be able to provide take-home buprenorphine as well.
In a July 21 letter to Michael O. Leavitt, Ph.D., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Mark W. Parrino, president of the American Association for …
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