X-Waiver No Longer Required to Prescribe Buprenorphine What You Need to Know

In a national effort to facilitate the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), physicians no longer need to obtain an x-waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.

All practitioners who have a current DEA registration that includes Schedule III authority may now prescribe buprenorphine for OUD. Please note: There will be added training requirements for all DEA applications and renewals, but the details of this requirement have not been decided.

Previous standards limiting the number of OUD patients that physicians could treat with buprenorphine have been removed There are no longer any patient caps for treating OUD with buprenorphine.

If your local pharmacy is unwilling to fill a prescription for buprenorphine for OUD, please share the letter from the DEA. If the pharmacy continues to refuse to fill buprenorphine prescriptions, you can file a formal complaint with the CA Board of Pharmacy.