ASHP To Biden: Use PREP Emergency Authority To Let Pharmacists Prescribe Buprenorphine

Health system pharmacists are pleased the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing to allow initial prescribing of buprenorphine via telehealth to continue after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends, but they want the administration to take an additional step and use its PREP Act authority under the opioid emergency to ensure pharmacists around the country can prescribe the opioid use disorder treatment. While the administration has taken several recent steps to expand access to medications for OUD, including removal of the...