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Bunavail is a citrus flavored oral form of buprenorphine and naloxone, which is used to treat opioid use disorder.
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People with opioid use disorder who get prescribed the anti-addiction medication buprenorphine by a physician may be able to continue this treatment regimen without repeat doctor visits if their local pharmacist can step in to manage their care, a new pilot study suggests.
Even though community pharmacists in most U.S. states can administer vaccines and prescribe a variety of medicines to patients who don’t see a doctor first, buprenorphine isn’t one of these drugs. Buprenorphine is highly regulated, and clinicians who prescribe it are required to go through training and receive waivers from the federal government.
Conditions are ripe for transforming the U.S. mental health care system, with scientific advances, the growth of Medicaid and political consensus on the importance of improving mental health creating the possibility that goals once thought out of reach may be possible, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
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Conditions are ripe for transforming the U.S. mental health care system, with scientific advances, the growth of Medicaid and political consensus on the importance of improving mental health creating the possibility that goals once thought out of reach may be possible, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Broad changes will be needed to improve how Americans receive mental health care, such as integrating behavioral health care into general health care settings, providing supportive housing to the homeless and promoting comprehensive mental health education.
Federal mental health parity legislation is one recent promising development that aims to put coverage for mental health treatment and general health care on equal footing, but researchers say that more effort is needed to enforce the law.
Broad changes needed to improve access and quality of U.S. mental health systems ANI | Updated: Jan 11, 2021 23:40 IST
Washington [US], January 11 (ANI): A comprehensive analysis has found that current conditions are ripe for transforming the U.S. mental health care system, with scientific advances, the growth of Medicaid and political consensus on the importance of improving mental health creating the possibility that goals once thought out of reach may now be possible.
According to a new RAND Corporation study, broad changes will be needed to improve how Americans receive mental health care, such as integrating behavioural health care into general health care settings, providing supportive housing to the homeless and promoting comprehensive mental health education.