People addicted to prescription painkillers reduce their opioid abuse when given sustained treatment with the medication buprenorphine plus naloxone (Suboxone), according to research published in ...

SAN DIEGO, May 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The buprenophine in the Suboxone will combine with opioid receptors to give a person the same feeling as if they were on such drugs as heroin. The reason ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

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Last year the U.S. had about 81,000 overdose deaths involving opioids. The tally since 1999 is at least 645,000. Though the culprits have changed over the years—first it was prescription opioids, then ...

While buprenorphine can produce some euphoric effects, studies show it has, by far, the lowest abuse potential of any opiate, and its “ceiling effect” means that an increase in dosage beyond a certain ...

In 2020, Indivior resolved the federal government's long-running probe into its aggressive marketing of the opioid addiction therapy Suboxone, reaching a $600 million plea deal. Now, it's paying up.

Signing into law a change that can prevent thousands of Americans from dying of opioid overdoses should have been met with fanfare. Instead, it not only slid under the media radar but hasn’t been ...

When Daniel Patrick Garrett began using Suboxone three years ago, he spent hours driving to find a pharmacy that would accept his prescription for the opioid use disorder treatment. Eight couldn't or ...

Buprenorphine, an important drug in fighting the opioid crisis, has long been closely monitored over concerns it would be abused. But a first-of-its-kind government oversight report released Thursday ...

Buprenorphine is a treatment medication that decreases mortality risks among people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Despite its efficacy, buprenorphine is underused in the US. Insurance restrictions ...

Medicare plans are replacing brand-name buprenorphine-naloxone film with its generic equivalents, resulting in a decrease in out-of-pocket cost faced by enrollees with opioid use disorder. Objectives: ...