Now Available: New Point-of-Care Tools for Buprenorphine, AFIB
ACEP recently added two new point-of-care (POC) tools to its growing library. BUPE is a quick and…
Buprenorphine
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Now Available: New Point-of-Care Tools for Buprenorphine, AFIB
ACEP recently added two new point-of-care (POC) tools to its growing library. BUPE is a quick and... -
In States with Most Overdose Deaths, Poor Patients Struggle to Find Treatment
Poor people with opioid use disorders may struggle to find doctors to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine... -
ED-Initiated Medication-Assisted Therapy: 1 Hospital’s Experience
By now, you would literally have to be living under a rock not to be aware of...
In States with Most Overdose Deaths, Poor Patients Struggle to Find Treatment
Poor people with opioid use disorders may struggle to find doctors to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine…
ED-Initiated Medication-Assisted Therapy: 1 Hospital’s Experience
By now, you would literally have to be living under a rock not to be aware of…
Five Steps to Help You Manage Opioid Use Disorder Patients
From 2002 to 2017, there has been more than a fourfold increase in the total number of…
Reader Raises 2 Issues with Buprenorphine Article
I am writing in response to the article “Buprenorphine Explained, And Opioid Addiction Treatment Tips” published in…
ACEP Participates in Buprenorphine Discussion
On Oct. 4, 2018, ACEP participated in a meeting along with 10 other provider groups to discuss…
Suboxone 101: The Skinny on This Opioid-Dependence Drug
Suboxone is a sublingual (SL) film dosage form containing a partial opioid agonist (buprenorphine) and an opioid antagonist (naloxone) for treating opioid dependence.1…
Unintended Buprenorphine Exposure Among Children a Growing Problem
U.S. poison centers received more than 11,000 calls from 2007 to 2016 related to unintended pediatric exposures…
Buprenorphine Explained, And Opioid Addiction Treatment Tips
Editor’s Note: This is the third part of an ongoing series on what emergency physicians can do…
Emergency Physician Runs Methadone Clinic to Treat Opioid Addicts
I am a residency-trained, American Board of Emergency Medicine–certified emergency physician and proud of it. I have…