{"typeId":"5","authorId":151281,"title":"Rolling Out Depot Buprenorphine – There is no Red Carpet","slug":"rolling-out-depot-buprenorphine-there-is-no-red-carpet","postDate":null,"expiryDate":null,"enabled":false,"newParentId":null,"fields":{"73":"https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcumopz8pHdavej0UuoyVkMRXJnq2eUNL","71":"abbie.mcdonnell@sydney.edu.au","70":"02 9515 6419","67":"It will soon be 2 years since the first depot buprenorphine product (Buvidal®) was made available in Australia via a product familiarisation programme, 18 months since it was TGA approved, and a year since another depot buprenorphine product (Sublocade®) was PBS listed, for treatment of opioid dependence. While uptake of this treatment modality has been encouraging, a golden dawn of primary care, “office-based” treatment of opioid dependence has not arrived, despite the imperatives of the opioid epidemic and the COVID pandemic. \n\nIn this seminar we look at challenges in the delivery of this treatment modality in a range of metropolitan and regional settings as a case study for the larger question of how to make addiction treatment more available to the people who need it, whoever and wherever they are. ","68":{"ownerId":null,"ownerSiteId":null,"fieldId":null,"startDate":[],"endDate":[],"allDay":false,"repeats":false,"days":[],"endRepeat":"never","endRepeatDate":null,"exceptions":[],"timeChanges":[],"repeatType":"week","months":null},"7":[],"69":"The University of Sydney, Specialty of Addiction Medicine","72":"online","82":{"titleRaw":[],"descriptionRaw":"","keywords":[],"score":"neutral","social":{"twitter":{"handle":"","title":"Rolling Out Depot Buprenorphine – There is no Red Carpet - Brisbane North PHN","imageId":null,"description":""},"facebook":{"handle":"","title":"Rolling Out Depot Buprenorphine – There is no Red Carpet - Brisbane North PHN","imageId":null,"description":""}},"advanced":{"robots":[],"canonical":null}}}}