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Using opioids to treat addiction is considered the gold standard. So why aren’t more doctors prescribing them?

Some doctors say the heavy federal regulations surrounding some addiction treatment medications have deterred many of their colleagues from obtaining the license needed to prescribe the drug.

A former inmate from Greenfield, Mass. holds a prescription of the addiction treatment medicine Suboxone. Heavy federal regulations have deterred some doctors from getting the training needed to prescribe it.
A former inmate from Greenfield, Mass. holds a prescription of the addiction treatment medicine Suboxone. Heavy federal regulations have deterred some doctors from getting the training needed to prescribe it.Read moreElise Amendola / AP File Photo