How to Use buprenorphine in a Sentence

buprenorphine

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Definition of buprenorphinenext
  • And it’s buprenorphine, rather than methadone, that’s at the center of the fight over MAT.
    — Anna Claire Vollers | Avollers@al.com, al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Patients can stay on buprenorphine for months or even years.
    — Tony Leys, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • At least one study has shown that use of non-prescribed buprenorphine is protective.
    — Joëlla W. Adams, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The patient could leave with buprenorphine that day, a sort of one-stop-shop for a treatment that experts say works remarkably well.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Police said Hines illegally got the buprenorphine, in the form of the drug Suboxone.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
  • If buprenorphine was right for the patient, the pharmacist would call a doctor to explain what was going on.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There are restrictions on who can prescribe buprenorphine and where it can be obtained.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Nik Rowley, 37, has been taking a daily dose of Suboxone — a brand name for buprenorphine — for about eight years.
    — Abby Goodnough, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • And few doctors cite the waiver process as the main barrier to prescribing buprenorphine.
    — Nickolas D. Zaller, STAT, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Still, access to buprenorphine is not without its challenges.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
  • One study found Black patients were 77% less likely to receive buprenorphine, a drug that limits the desire for opioids.
    — Cristina Silva, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2021
  • While methadone and buprenorphine have been in existence much longer, the drugs include narcotics, making the potential for abuse stronger.
    — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The rules also carve out an exception for buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But a few weeks later, a patient was caught misusing buprenorphine—snorting it outside the courthouse—and trying to sell it to others in the group.
    — Beth MacY, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • For example, the opioid buprenorphine is often given to lab rodents and monkeys as a painkiller.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The number of people on buprenorphine alone has increased dramatically over the past four years.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Not all are addicted to opioids, and not all who came in opioid-dependent choose to receive buprenorphine.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Injectable buprenorphine, sold under the brand name Sublocade, received FDA approval in 2017.
    — Jenny Gold, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2022
  • And in 2019, a Massachusetts mother was also added to her state's child abuse registry for using buprenorphine.
    — ELLE, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Before the pandemic, someone who wanted to start on buprenorphine had to visit a prescriber in-person.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Every prescription opioid saw declines in the final five years of the data except for one, The Post found: buprenorphine, the drug used to treat opioid addiction.
    — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But finding a clinician who prescribes buprenorphine can be a challenge.
    — Lila Flavin, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Fiellin and some of his colleagues at Yale helped shape changes in government policy that enabled more physicians to prescribe buprenorphine.
    — Steve Hamm, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • BrightView restarted her on buprenorphine for her heroin addiction and set her up with the DynamiCare app and debit card as an incentive to stay off meth.
    — Abby Goodnough New York Times, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Most of the pregnant people who have been prosecuted are those who used opioids like buprenorphine and methadone to treat substance use disorders.
    — ELLE, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Like many other prescription drugs, buprenorphine can be found illegally on the street.
    — Aneri Pattani, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • But Grinspoon said that while in recovery, he was denied access to buprenorphine, a type of drug that treats addiction and prevents relapse.
    — Chiara Eisner, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • For the first time, doctors could initiate treatment with buprenorphine via telehealth instead of an in-person visit.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Carroll and his colleagues launched a study using the medication buprenorphine.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 1 July 2023
  • Late actor Matthew Perry had therapeutic levels of buprenorphine in his system at time of death.
    — Joëlla W. Adams, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024

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