Any insights for why can't more doctors prescribe suboxone?

Tough question!: This drug is used in physicians" offices, instead of Methadone treatment. It is also given to patients' for home use. Professionals are hesitant and careful to allow such drugs to be taken without confidence in lack of abuse.

Suboxone doctors: It's due to several factors, the primary one being that most doctors just do not want to do it. Doctors like patients to get well quickly and folks with drug problems take a while, often times to recover. Doctors are afraid they'll be manipulated and don't like to deal with that. I must at times, be confrontational with patients. I don't like to do it. Some docs won't do it. Drs like to trust pts.

Many, many reasons: Most doctors, like most people, have negative attitudes about people with substance use disorders, and particularly with opioid use disorders. It takes an eight hour course, and involves caring for often complicated and difficult patients. Despite this, many thousands of physicians have gotten waivers; unfortunately, only a small fraction are using these waivers to treat even modest numbers.