The Biden administration has loosened restrictions on prescribing medication to treat opioid use disorder Tuesday in a move to increase access as overdose deaths have climbed during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday released federal guidelines that allow more providers to prescribe buprenorphine and nix the eight-hour training requirement to prescribe the drug. For years, experts have said that the “X-waiver” needed to prescribe the drug creates an unnecessary hurdle to treating opioid addiction.  

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/550460-biden-administration-loosens-restrictions-on-prescribing-medication-for

See the Federal Guidelines:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/04/28/2021-08961/practice-guidelines-for-the-administration-of-buprenorphine-for-treating-opioid-use-disorder