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Demystifying buprenorphine misuse: Has fear of diversion gotten in the way of addressing the opioid crisis?

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Stephanie K. Rubel, Matthew Eisenstat, Jessica Wolff, Michael Calevski & Sasha Mital. (2023) Scope of, Motivations for, and Outcomes Associated with Buprenorphine Diversion in the United States: A Scoping Review. Substance Use & Misuse 58:5, pages 685-697.
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Hayley D. Germack. (2020) States Should Remove Barriers to Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Prescriptive Authority to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 22:2, pages 85-92.
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Noa Krawczyk, Michael I. Fingerhood & Deborah Agus. (2020) Lessons from COVID 19: Are we finally ready to make opioid treatment accessible?. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 117, pages 108074.
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Noa Krawczyk, Ramin Mojtabai, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Michael Fingerhood, Deborah Agus, B. Casey Lyons, Jonathan P. Weiner & Brendan Saloner. (2020) Opioid agonist treatment and fatal overdose risk in a state‐wide US population receiving opioid use disorder services. Addiction 115:9, pages 1683-1694.
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Brandon del Pozo, Lawrence S. Krasner & Sarah F. George. (2021) Decriminalization of Diverted Buprenorphine in Burlington, Vermont and Philadelphia: An Intervention to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 48:2, pages 373-375.
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