DEA’s Crackdown on Online Prescriptions Threatens Patients, Startups
Thanks to the pandemic, doctors have been able to prescribe more kinds of drugs online. One such drug is buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid-use disorder. Proposed rules would put an end to that, making care for addiction harder to find. For the past three years, doctors have been able to do something that’s normally illegal: prescribe potentially addictive medications, called controlled substances, to patients they see online. Thanks to the public-health emergency, this temporary allowance — along with other…