Emergency room doctors are more likely to initiate buprenorphine treatment for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) when their colleagues are also prescribing buprenorphine for OUD, according to recent data.
“There was a dose-dependent association between the number of exposures to the practice of buprenorphine initiation and the likelihood of a given clinician adopting the practice themselves,” study investigator Andrew J. Loza, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist in the Department of