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Joe Raedle/Getty Images toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images 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 ...

Providers will no longer need to complete eight hours of training before prescribing buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder, but they still must get a waiver from the federal government.

© Getty Images The Biden administration has loosened restrictions on prescribing medication to treat opioid use disorder Tuesday in a move to increase access as overdose deaths have climbed during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday released federal guidelines that allow more providers to prescribe buprenorphine and nix the eight-hour training requirement to prescribe the drug. For years, experts have said that the “X-waiver” needed to prescribe the drug creates an unnecessary hurdle to treating opioid addiction.   Buprenorphine is on...

A bill to decriminalize buprenorphine is heading for the Vermont Senate, New Zealand makes a pilot pill testing program permanent, and more. A deadly amount of fentanyl. The White House has approved federal funds for test strips to prevent overdoses. (DEA) Harm Reduction Biden Administration Allows Federal Funds to Be Used to Buy Rapid Fentanyl Test Strips. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) announced Thursday that federal funds can now be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips. According to a pr...

(404) 639-3286 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced today that federal funding may now be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) in an effort to help curb the dramatic spike in drug overdose deaths largely driven by the use of strong synthetic opioids, including illicitly manufactured fentanyl. FTS can be used to determine if drugs have been mixed or cut with fentanyl, providing people who use drugs and communities with important information about fentanyl in the illicit drug supply...