The opioid crisis that killed a record 108,000 Americans last year is by now a well-known tragedy. Yet many of these deaths are preventable with the use of medications like buprenorphine. Trouble is only a small fraction of the people in the U.S. addicted to opioids have access to these medications.

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Vince Bielski is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn who writes about the environment, clean energy, education, immigration and more. He worked for 16 years as a senior editor at Bloomberg News.