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Addiction Medicine
NAABT Patient/Physician Matching System a Success
November 7th, 2008
Launched in September 2006, NAABT.org's free and anonymous online matching system has connected nearly 14,000 addicted patients with physicians certified to prescribe Suboxone for opioid addiction. Less than 2% of US physicians are allowed by law to prescribe this treatment, and those that do have a Congress imposed limit on how many patients they can treat (30 or 100 based on how long they have been certified). Virtually all US physicians can prescribe, without limits, the medication people become addicted to, but once addicted, less than 2% of doctors are legally able to treat them with the most effective FDA approved...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-11-07)
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