Opioid use disorder and the COVID 19 pandemic: A call to sustain regulatory easements and further expand access to treatment.
Traci C GreenJeffrey P BratbergDeborah S FinnellPublished in: Substance abuse (2020)
We highlight the critical roles that pharmacists have related to sustaining and advancing the changes being made in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that patients have more seamless and less complex access to treatment. Discussed herein is how the current COVID-19 pandemic is impacting persons with substance use disorders, barriers that persist, and the opportunities that arise as regulations around treatments for this population are eased.