Stacey McKenna, Resident Senior Fellow, Healthier Communities, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 562, “State Board of Pharmacy – Prescriber-Pharmacist Agreements – Treatment of Opioid Use ...

The U.S. drug crisis is as bad as it’s ever been, and there are few signs things are getting better. About 110,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2023, about the same as in previous years. Fentanyl, ...

Data available online and in an upcoming print issue of JCI Insight, a peer-reviewed journal This pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic study aimed at modeling the ...

Brendan Saloner ([email protected]), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Pooja Lagisetty, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Access and scale are two sides of the same coin. Whereas ...

Creation of a clinic focused on harm reduction for patients with a substance use disorder (SUD) who required opioid treatment for severe cancer pain resulted in more than half of the patients ...

Attempting to reduce fatal opioid overdoses and encourage more people to seek treatment, fire department paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering the medication buprenorphine in the field ...

The risk of congenital malformations appears to be lower with buprenorphine than with methadone when taken during the first trimester of pregnancy for opioid use disorder (OUD), according to an ...

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 ...

For young people with opioid use disorder (OUD), buprenorphine costs have declined overall but with drastic variation by payer type, researchers found. Examining buprenorphine prescriptions dispensed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mean out-of-pocket costs for buprenorphine fell more 57% in 5 years. Costs were around 24 times higher with ...