The Number Needed to Prescribe - What Would It Take to Expand Access to Buprenorphine?

The Number Needed to Prescribe Policies have been proposed to remove obstacles to prescribing buprenorphine to people with opioid use disorder. But a larger barrier to treatment expansion is cultural: physicians and institutions fail to treat substance use disorders as the chronic diseases they are.

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The Number Needed to Prescribe Policies aim to address barriers to prescribing buprenorphine to individuals with opioid use disorder, but the larger obstacle to treatment expansion lies in the cultural failure of physicians and institutions to treat substance use disorders as chronic diseases.