Starting November, Seattle will become the first U.S. city where emergency medical technicians and firefighters in the field ...

For patients without chronic pain, healthcare providers started buprenorphine, known by its brand name Suboxone, when ...

They will soon launch a new pathway for patients that involves offering suboxone in the field and transportation to the hospital's addiction services unit instead of the emergency room.

Use of a lifesaving drug to reverse opioid drug overdoses is growing, but not fast enough. Use of a lifesaving drug to reverse opioid drug overdoses is growing, but not fast enough. That's ...

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The pilot project focuses on the use of buprenorphine to ease the symptoms of opioid withdrawal. The Clark-Cowlitz acute-level Cares Unit — which responds to overdoses, suicide attempts and othe ...

The lawmakers argued buprenorphine merits a more permissive approach. The drug is a partial agonist medication, meaning it can’t maximally activate opioid receptors and is less likely to be ...

Figure 1. Additional therapies prescribed alongside buprenorphine for chronic pain management. Among the 248 patients enrolled, 118 with severe pain and 34 with moderate pain were prescribed adjuvant ...

“By addressing the unique administrative and regulatory challenges they face, we aim to empower pharmacists to confidently dispense buprenorphine and provide effective care for those living with ...

With the prospect that innovative drug therapies will be introduced in the coming years, society demands new approaches and concepts for comparative risk and benefit evaluation. Comparisons of the ...

Pharmacology is the study of the mechanisms of action of drugs and their effects on normal and disease states. It is a science based upon integrating chemistry, biochemistry, cell and molecular ...

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