The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)’s Post

According to a 🆕 The National Institutes of Health-supported study, most Americans don’t know that primary care physicians can prescribe addiction treatment. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, reveal a crucial need to increase public awareness that medications for opioid use disorder can be prescribed in primary care settings. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) JCOIN Coordination and Translation Center Brown University #nihHEALinitiative https://go.nih.gov/GIgpGMt

  • A physician sitting in a medical examination room talking to a patient. NIDA logo and "News Release" in white text enters and leaves the frame over a blue background. Then blue text over a white box enters and leaves the frame, "Most Americans don’t know that primary care physicians can prescribe addiction treatment." More blue text over a white box enters and leaves the frame, "NIH-supported study reveals crucial need to increase public awareness that medications for opioid use disorder can be prescribed in primary care settings."

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