Early-Career and Graduating Physicians More Likely to Prescribe Buprenorphine

Lars E Peterson; Zachary J Morgan; Aimee R Eden

doi:10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190230

Early-Career and Graduating Physicians More Likely to Prescribe Buprenorphine

J Am Board Fam Med. 2020 Jan-Feb;33(1):7-8. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190230.

Authors

Lars E Peterson¹, Zachary J Morgan², Aimee R Eden²

Affiliations

¹ From the American Board of Family Medicine, Lexington, KY (LEP, ZJM, ARE); Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (LEP). [email protected].
² From the American Board of Family Medicine, Lexington, KY (LEP, ZJM, ARE); Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (LEP).

PMID: 31907240
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190230

Abstract

Using data from 2016 to 2018, we demonstrate a sharp increase in graduating family medicine residents and early-career family physicians who intend to or actually prescribe buprenorphine with no change in mid-to-late-career physicians. Family physicians are responding to the opioid crisis but, growing the family medicine workforce to treat opioid-use disorder will require a larger response from mid-to-late-career physicians.

Keywords: Buprenorphine; Family Physicians; Opioid-Related Disorders; Opioids; Prescriptions; Residency.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Buprenorphine / therapeutic use*
Certification
Family Practice / methods
Humans
Narcotic Antagonists / therapeutic use*
Opiate Substitution Treatment / methods*
Opioid-Related Disorders / drug therapy*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*

Substances

Narcotic Antagonists
Buprenorphine