While there has been a significant focus on increasing access to buprenorphine as a health policy intervention for treating opioid use disorder (OUD), emerging evidence suggests pharmacy-level barriers to buprenorphine are prevalent and that these barriers may be even more problematic in rural areas, such as Appalachia.
Identify barriers and facilitators of buprenorphine dispensing in pharmacies
Develop and implement pharmacist-delivered peer educational interventions to facilitate buprenorphine dispensing in pharmacies
Evaluate the impact of pharmacist-delivered peer educational interventions on buprenorphine dispensing behavior and buprenorphine dispensing.
This two-year project is funded by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), a foundation that supports solutions to the opioid crisis.
Trish Freeman, RPh, PhD, FAPhA, FNAP Professor, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
