{"title":"OUD outpatients who use fentanyl lag in buprenorphine initiation","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34394","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The widespread presence of fentanyl is causing already disappointing levels of buprenorphine treatment initiation for opioid use disorder (OUD) to plunge even further, suggest data from a newly published cohort study. The study found that only around one-third of fentanyl-using patients of two outpatient substance use treatment clinics were able to complete a low-dose initiation protocol and proceed to pick up a refill maintenance prescription of buprenorphine.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 5","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.34394","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The widespread presence of fentanyl is causing already disappointing levels of buprenorphine treatment initiation for opioid use disorder (OUD) to plunge even further, suggest data from a newly published cohort study. The study found that only around one-third of fentanyl-using patients of two outpatient substance use treatment clinics were able to complete a low-dose initiation protocol and proceed to pick up a refill maintenance prescription of buprenorphine.