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Addiction Medicine
One-Year Results of the Nationwide Free Service Matching Opioid-Addicted Patients with Physicians Offering In-Office Treatment
October 5th, 2007
Since the National launch 9-1-2006, the National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment's confidential Patient/Physician Matching System has successfully connected 4,880 patients seeking treatment for opioid addiction with certified buprenorphine-prescribing physicians. This free-of-charge online service -- available at http://www.naabtlist.org/ -- affords patients and loved ones confidentiality in seeking treatment for opioid (i.e., oxycodone -- OxyContin(R), Percocet(R), hydrocodone -- Vicodin(R), heroin) addiction. An email from a NYC patient stated: "I registered and within 10 minutes I had emails from 3...
Source: Health Business Week (2007-10-05)
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