Under the updated COVID-era federal regulations, health care providers can prescribe higher doses of methadone depending on a patient's needs.Stabilized patients also have more access to take-home medications and can attend counseling by video or phone rather than in person.Before the pandemic, "we couldn't go up as quickly on dosage to get to the appropriate dosage that stops cravings of opioids," said Dr. Andrew Tompkins, head of UCSF's Division of Substance Abuse and Addiction Medicine.
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