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The Biden administration aims to make buprenorphine, a drug proven to help people with opioid addiction, more available. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The Biden administration says new federal guidelines released Tuesday will allow far more medical practitioners to prescribe buprenorphine, a drug proven to reduce opioid relapses and overdose deaths.
The change lowers regulatory hurdles that critics believe sharply limit use of the life-saving medication at a time when drug deaths are surging. We have made this much easier for physicians but also for other medical practitioners, said Dr. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of health, speaking with NPR.
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