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What is the Physician Clinical Support System? (PCSS)
The SAMHSA-funded PCSS is designed to assist practicing physicians, in accordance with the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, in incorporating into their practices the treatment of prescription opioid and heroin dependent patients using buprenorphine.
The PCSS service is available, at no cost, to interested physicians and staff, to assist in implementing office-based treatment of opioid dependence with buprenorphine. The essential elements of the PCSS are a national network of trained physician mentors with expertise in buprenorphine treatment and skilled in clinical education, who will be supported by NATIONAL EXPERTS in the use of buprenorphine and a MEDICAL DIRECTOR.
The PCSS MENTORS are members of medical specialty societies and provide mentoring support and educational services based on evidence-based practice guidelines. The efforts of PCSS are coordinated by a STEERING COMMITTEE composed of representatives from the Federal government, the leading addiction medicine societies, along with primary care and psychiatric organizations that represent the target physician populations.
It is estimated that in its first year of operation the PCSS will provide clinical support services to primary care physicians, pain specialists, psychiatrists, and other non-addiction medical practitioners in an effort to increase access to this form of treatment. The PCSS serves to significantly increase access to buprenorphine treatment among the millions of untreated opioid dependent patients.
The PCSS is designed to offer support to clinicians on a number of TOPICS.
The PCSS is active in 48 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. Click here or on the image below to see the PCSS ACTIVITIES MAP.
How to get involved
Contact for more information about the program or to find a PCSS clinician in your locale or region.
To register as a PCSS Participant, you may contact the PCSS directly or download, complete, and return the PCSS Participant Registration Questionnaire form. PCSS staff will match you to a mentor within 2 days of receiving your registration form.
For more information about applying to become a mentor click here: PCSS MENTOR APPLICATION
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PCSS QUICK LINKS
Find a Mentor
BECOME a Mentor
How to Get Involved
Links To Buprenorphine Trainings
PCSS MENTOR LINKS
Contact Screen
follow up survey
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