Intentions to prescribe buprenorphine should a waiver no longer be required
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This study was conducted just as the federal government was deliberating eliminating the training requirement to get a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. We, therefore, added a question regarding this potential scenario. Non-waivered PCCs rated one question on their intentions to prescribe buprenorphine if a waiver were no longer required (“If your patient with OUD requested buprenorphine in the next year and a waiver were no longer required, would you prescribe buprenorphine?”) on a five-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (