Prescribe for patients with opioid use disorder — with confidence

Abstract

A new message from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encourages primary care providers to prescribe medication — primarily, buprenorphine — for opioid use disorder (OUD) “with confidence.” In the missive, subtitled “Patients with opioid use disorder need you,” the FDA noted that more than 6 million people age 12 or older have an OUD. Below is the FDA statement.