Adults with opioid use disorder who receive a higher daily dose of the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine may have a lower risk of subsequent emergency department visits or use of ...
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.
Adults with opioid use disorder who receive a higher daily dose of the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine may have a lower risk of subsequent emergency department visits or use of ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Prevention Point Philadelphia’s drop-in center on Kensington Avenue used to be a ...
As a pharmacist for HCMC and Hennepin emergency services, Holly Drone has seen a lot. But when Drone described the pain of opiate withdrawal on patients, she turned to her clients’ and co-workers’ ...
Butrans (buprenorphine) is a prescription drug used to treat severe, ongoing pain that requires daily medication. Butrans’s cost may depend on factors such as your dosage, whether you have health ...
Opioids relieve pain but are dangerous and highly addictive. In a recent 12-month period, there were 109,600 USA drug-overdose deaths, with 70% linked to opioids. In 2023, 5.7 million people in the ...