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Advanced Practice Nurses: Increasing Access to Opioid Treatment by Expanding the Pool of Qualified Buprenorphine Prescribers

Matthew Tierney, MS, PMHNP-BC; Deborah S. Finnell, DNS, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, FAAN; Madeline A. Naegle, PhD, CNS-PMH, BC, FAAN; Colleen LaBelle, BSN, RN-BC, CARN; & Adam J. Gordon, MD, MPH

SAj Volume 36, Issue 4

Abstract: This editorial is an appeal for all advanced practice nurses with appropriate prescriptive privileges and DEA licenses to be allowed to join physicians in prescribing buprenorphine to increase access to opioid agonist treatment and to reduce the harms associated with the opioid epidemic. Constituting a large proportion of US health care providers, advanced practice nurses can help stop this epidemic.