Suboxone, a medication primarily used in the treatment of opioid use disorder, combines buprenorphine and naloxone. It plays a crucial role in reducing opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms. However, like…
Mar 1, 2024
For people with opioid use disorder (OUD), buprenorphine is a lifesaving drug (J Addict Med. 2023 Sep-Oct; 17(5): 509–516.) As part of medication-assisted treatment (MAT), buprenorphine reduces relapse to illicit…
Feb 13, 2024
Fentanyl, a potent opioid drug, is responsible for thousands of overdose deaths in the US every year. Fentanyl has legitimate medical uses for pain and anesthesia, but fentanyl is also…
Oct 31, 2023
Great efforts have been made to decrease the damage from the opioid abuse epidemic by supporting treatment with a very effective drug buprenorphine. However, patients cannot be treated if pharmacies…
Oct 19, 2020
Call your physician as soon as possible if you think you have influenza (cough, sore throat, fever, muscle and body aches) because early treatment of influenza with antiviral drugs, as…
Jan 3, 2020
When buprenorphine was first introduced in the US and until recently, benzodiazepines such as Xanax (alprazolam) and Valium (diazepam) were thought to be inadvisable or dangerous in patients receiving treatment…
Dec 16, 2019
Pharmaceutical investor Martin Shkreli, already in prison for securities fraud, was transferred to solitary confinement in March for using a contraband cellphone to run his drug company Phoenixus AG from…
Jun 26, 2019
Who was ever harmed by smoking a little weed? Right? Wrong. Good research shows that people who start smoking marijuana, or cannabis, regularly when they are in their teens and…
Jun 3, 2019
Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders Often Produces Dramatic and Life-Changing Benefits Although there is a national epidemic of opioid misuse and overdoses, treatment is effective. The most effective treatment is…
Jun 3, 2019