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 E-Mail On January 14, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted notice to the Federal Register that it would issue practice guidelines that exempt physicians from the requirement to apply for a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) in up to 30 patients at one time. This exemption has been placed on hold by the Biden administration and may require legislative change to implement. An exemption to the X-waiver has the potential to help reverse the morbidity and mortality associated with the opioid overdose epidemic, although without accomp...

2Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 3Associate Editor, JAMA 4Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, and Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts JAMA. Published online February 25, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0958