PREVALENCE OF BUPRENORPHINE “ABUSE” – IT’S ALL IN THE DEFINITION:

January 15th, 2008 | Category: Opiate Addiction

This would seem to be a particularly misleading approach in dealing with buprenorphine, whose key appeal to regulators and clinicians alike is the high degree of safety attributed to its “ceiling effect.” Smith et al. A recent exposition entitled, “Abuse of Buprenorphine in the US:

2003-2005” did not consider any indicators of the extent of abuse, but merely tabulated those instances in which the “abuse” caused adverse reactions severe decent to lead someone to contact a poison control center. J Addict Dis 2007; 26(3):107-111.

Original post by RGNewman, MD

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