{"id":3822,"date":"2021-03-31T00:45:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:13:32","slug":"increase-in-waivered-clinicians-has-not-eliminated-rural-urban-opioid-treatment-disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/2021\/03\/31\/increase-in-waivered-clinicians-has-not-eliminated-rural-urban-opioid-treatment-disparities\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in Waivered Clinicians Has Not Eliminated Rural\/Urban Opioid Treatment Disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new WWAMI RHRC study finds that the number of DEA-waivered clinicians more than doubled from December 2017 to July 2020, from 37,869 to 98,344. The availability of a clinician with a DEA waiver to provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has increased across all geographic categories. Nearly two thirds of all rural counties (63.1%) had at least one clinician with a DEA waiver, but more than half of small and remote rural counties lacked one. There were also significant differences in access by US Census Division.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We found that the substantial expansion in the number and types of providers who can prescribe buprenorphine, as well as the increases in the number of patients that clinicians with a waiver can treat at one time, offer significant but not fully realized potential to curtail the OUD epidemic in rural communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, MOUD access has improved, but there is significant regional variation and small rural communities particularly continue to experience access challenges. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Access the study (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/studies\/what-is-the-geographic-distribution-of-the-workforce-with-a-dea-waiver-to-prescribe-buprenorphine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Access the study<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><strong>US Counties With a Clinician With a DEA Waiver to Prescribe Buprenorphine by US Census Division<\/strong><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"578\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/bup_divs_all_clinicians-e1617743221514.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/bup_divs_all_clinicians-e1617743221514.png 578w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/bup_divs_all_clinicians-e1617743221514-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new WWAMI RHRC study finds that the number of DEA-waivered clinicians more than doubled from December 2017 to July 2020, from 37,869 to 98,344. The availability of a clinician with a DEA waiver to provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has increased across all geographic categories. Nearly two thirds of all rural [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":3819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}