Pennsylvania prisons now give suboxone to thousands of inmates, with thousands more on the waiting list.

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Patients who received higher doses of buprenorphine, a common medication used to alleviate opioid withdrawal and cravings, were less likely to ...

While the elimination of the X waiver increased the number of clinicians prescribing buprenorphine, it hasn't yet had a substantial impact on the number of patients taking the drug, according to an ...

This medicine may be one of the best tools doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to ...

The typical buprenorphine dosage for opioid use disorder is 2 mg to 8 mg. Buprenorphine comes as a sublingual tablet and is usually taken once per day. It’s important to take the buprenorphine dosage ...

Virginia aims its substance-abuse funding toward medication-assisted treatment, which is meant to combine a drug such as Suboxone with recurring counseling sessions. Studies suggest that addicts are ...

After years of alarming increases in opioid overdose deaths, the U.S. finally saw a 1-year decline from 84,000 to 81,000 in 2023. While the marginal drop is encouraging, we cannot rest on this ...

Buprenorphine sublingual tablet is prescribed to treat opioid use disorder in two phases: an induction phase to manage initial withdrawal symptoms and a maintenance phase for long-term treatment. You ...