Facilitating Buprenorphine Access Through Pharmacist Peer Outreach
About the Project
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.
The purpose of this project is to:
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Identify barriers and facilitators of buprenorphine dispensing in pharmacies
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Develop and implement pharmacist-delivered peer educational interventions to facilitate buprenorphine dispensing in pharmacies
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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.
