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This Philly clinic gets patients with opioid addiction onto medication almost immediately. It’s seeing early success.

A new case study notes that 55% of the program’s more than 350 patients stayed on an opioid addiction medication for at least a month after their first appointment.

Jasmine Barnes, a substance use navigator at Penn Medicine, helps opioid addiction patients quickly obtain a buprenorphine prescription as part of a new program.
Jasmine Barnes, a substance use navigator at Penn Medicine, helps opioid addiction patients quickly obtain a buprenorphine prescription as part of a new program.Read moreCourtesy Jasmine Barnes