The White House, federal agencies and lawmakers today marked the elimination of the DATA-Waiver Program, better known as the X-Waiver requirement, with calls for providers to begin incorporating opioid use disorder treatment buprenorphine in everyday patient care. The X-Waiver requirement only permitted doctors who had received specialized training and federal permissions to prescribe the opioid partial agonist, which is a controlled substance.
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