By Cara Murez | HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, April 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. opioid crisis led to changes that make it easier for people struggling with addiction to get medication from a health care provider to help them quit.
But researchers found that for some reason, rates of medication use haven’t budged.
Numbers of Americans who started buprenorphine were flat between 2019 and 2022, after rising from January 2016 to September 2018.