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 ...

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 ...

More than 15 years ago, Yale's Gail D'Onofrio started studying the effectiveness of sublingual (under-the-tongue) buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the emergency department.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study included 227 individuals with OUD given CAM2038 either on weekly or monthly basis. The treatment was ...

The findings, which appeared today in JAMA Network Open, are strong evidence that buprenorphine, a medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat opioid use disorder, can be ...

EVERETT, Wash. — The Everett Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services Division (EMS) has launched a new pilot programto allow paramedics to administer buprenorphine, to help with opiate withdrawal ...

Buprenorphine is a prescription medication. It’s approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat opioid dependence in adults. Opioid dependence is also called opioid use disorder (OUD), ...