{
  "id": 140310,
  "title": "About a Quarter of Buprenorphine Prescriptions for OUD Abandoned",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/about-a-quarter-of-buprenorphine-prescriptions-for-oud-abandoned",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-04T15:49:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MedPage Today",
    "slug": "medpage-today",
    "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/addictions/122479"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "(MedPage Today) -- The proportion of new buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid use disorder (OUD) that were never dispensed or filled increased from 2020 to 2024, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among over 1,400 patients with commercial...",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}