It wasn’t too long ago when buprenorphine prescribers had their hands tied, with regulations like the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008, a previous DEA-enforced statute that ...

Providers who offer telehealth services to Medicare patients take note: many key telehealth flexibilities that have been in ...

Summaries of each appear below. DEA Further Extends Telehealth Prescribing Flexibilities Through 2025 Telehealth flexibilities for the prescription of controlled substances have been extended for ...

The DEA also announced three new rules on Jan. 16, 2025, that made some temporary telemedicine flexibilities permanent. These provisions allow patients access to medication such as buprenorphine ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rule allows for six months of prescribing buprenorphine virtually to a new patient. National telehealth OUD treatment provider Bicycle Health says the ...

Amidst the nation’s fentanyl crisis, the federal exemptions made special allowances for buprenorphine, specifically allowing ...

Waivers allowing providers to remotely prescribe controlled medications via telemedicine run through Dec. 31, 2025, which would give DEA time to alter the rules and not have an effect on these ...

Since ADHD stimulant medications (such as Adderall and Ritalin) are classified as controlled substances, they carry a risk of ...

In this conversation, Dave Newman, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer for virtual care at Sanford Health, ...