Faced with a worsening drug crisis, policymakers in recent years have made it much easier for doctors to prescribe the highly effective opioid addiction treatment buprenorphine. However, many patients ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Two Democratic lawmakers are pushing the Drug Enforcement Administration to take a more lax approach to regulating buprenorphine, a medication ...

This medicine may be one of the best tools doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to ...

Higher doses and a longer duration of buprenorphine use throughout pregnancy for opioid use disorder (OUD) are associated with improved postpartum treatment retention and fewer overdose events, with ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

While the drop in drug overdose deaths is promising, and could potentially be partially attributed to the efforts of the federal government, we must remain cognizant about the sheer number of lives we ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only half of pregnant women with opioid use disorder receive treatment in the United States. Buprenorphine ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Buprenorphine, especially the extended-release formulation, reduced future ED visits in patients with opioid use ...

Overall, 51.6% of the 14,463 maternal-infant dyads received buprenorphine treatment, and dyads treated with buprenorphine had a significantly lower rate of adverse pregnancy outcomes versus untreated ...

Pregnant women living with opioid use disorder (OUD) and their infants had significantly better health outcomes when treated with buprenorphine, according to a new study at Vanderbilt University ...