Disease index

opioid use disorder

Pain · 2019–2021

3decisions
1medicine
1carried consumer input
1individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
buprenorphine Treatment of opioid dependence (opioid use disorder) within a framework of medical, social, and psychological treatment. The weekly formulation can be… Nov 2021 Recommended with restriction 1 individuals Better Access Australia
buprenorphine Treatment of opioid use disorder (opioid dependence), within a framework of medical, social and psychological treatment. Mar 2019 Deferred none received
buprenorphine Treatment of opioid use disorder within a framework of medical, social and psychological treatment, for patients stabilised on sublingual buprenorphine or… Nov 2019 Recommended no section in document

Who spoke

Better Access Australia

What the PBS pays

$183M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 1,909,959 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
buprenorphine $182.7M

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 1 of 3 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.