Portland addictions specialists welcome Feds’ move to ease treatment restrictions

The Obama administration announced it is expanding access to a drug used to treat opioid addiction by raising the cap on how many patients a doctor can treat. Doctors will soon be able to treat 275 patients at a time with buprenorphine, up from 100 currently. The drug, which goes by the brand name Suboxone, helps patients control withdrawal symptoms and cravings for prescription painkillers and heroin alike but doesn’t get them high. About 650,000 Americans received buprenorphine in 2014, according…
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