What The Study Did:
Opioid use disorder treatment during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, including medication fills, outpatient visits and urine tests among privately insured individuals, was compared with 2019 in this study.
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Haiden A. Huskamp, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
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