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Opinion: Doctors, Get X Waivered and Ban the X Waiver

By Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS, MA, FACEP | on October 21, 2019 | 0 Comment
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  1. Weiner SG, Baker O, Bernson D, et al. 402 one-year mortality of opioid overdose victims who received naloxone by emergency medical services. Ann Emerg Med. 2017;70(4 suppl):S158.
  2. Kakko J, Svanborg KD, Kreek MJ, et al. 1-year retention and social function after buprenorphine-assisted relapse prevention treatment for heroin dependence in Sweden: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2003;361(9358):662-668.

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Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS, MA, FACEP

Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS, MA, FACEP, is Medical Editor in Chief of ACEP Now, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in department of emergency medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. Follow him on twitter @JeremyFaust.

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