The Obama administration is proposing to double the number of patients a doctor may treat with a controversial heroin addiction medication — an idea that is drawing praise from public health officials, but also questions about the impact it could have on the nation's opioid epidemic.
The Department of Health and Human Services, confronting a dramatic increase in overdoses from prescription drugs and heroin, is considering a regulation that would permit physicians to treat up to 200 patients with buprenorphine — a drug considered safer and more convenient than methadone.
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