A plea from people who use drugs to clinicians: new ways to initiate buprenorphine are urgently needed in the fentanyl era

KL Sue, S Cohen, J Tilley… - Journal of Addiction …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
… In our current fentanyl era, patients and people who use drugs are pleading with clinicians
to be open to education on and willingness to attempt these novel initiation methods as we …

Buprenorphine/naloxone associated with a reduced odds of fentanyl exposure among a cohort of people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada

S Young, K Hayashi, C Grant, MJ Milloy… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
fentanyl-positive UDT. Our findings highlight high rates of ongoing fentanyl use despite the
use … OAT and support the expansion of BUP/NX for the treatment of people who use fentanyl. …

Enhancing patient choice: using self-administered intranasal naloxone for novel rapid buprenorphine initiation

A Randall, I Hull, SA Martin - Journal of Addiction Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
fentanyl use—likely because of fentanyl's lipophilicity, which leads to a large volume of
distribution and slow dissipation when used … A 33-year-old man with 2 years of daily fentanyl use

Rapid micro-induction of buprenorphine/naloxone for opioid use disorder in a critically ill intubated patient: a case report

B Hamata, D Griesdale, J Hann… - Journal of Addiction …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… We present a case in which a critically ill and mechanically ventilated patient was
transitioned from a fentanyl infusion to buprenorphine/naloxone using a rapid micro-induction …

… and monthly subcutaneous buprenorphine depot formulations vs daily sublingual buprenorphine with naloxone for treatment of opioid use disorder: a randomized …

MR Lofwall, SL Walsh, EV Nunes, GL Bailey… - JAMA internal …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
use and fentanyl frequently detected); use of highly sensitive opioid urine testing; an
active control group receiving known therapeutic doses; and flexible individualized treatment …

Patterns of non-prescribed buprenorphine and other opioid use among individuals with opioid use disorder: A latent class analysis

R Daniulaityte, RW Nahhas, S Silverstein… - Drug and alcohol …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Latent class analysis (LCA) was conducted to identify subgroups based on past 6-month (days
of NPB and heroin/fentanyl use; use of NPB to get high; use of non-prescribed and …

A case of buprenorphine-precipitated withdrawal managed with high-dose buprenorphine

THN Quattlebaum, M Kiyokawa, KA Murata - Family Practice, 2022 - academic.oup.com
buprenorphinenaloxone (… use of street fentanyl, an increased incidence of precipitated
withdrawal has been observed during buprenorphine induction in patients abusing illicit fentanyl

Opioid overdose deaths with buprenorphine detected in postmortem toxicology: a retrospective analysis

RS Wightman, J Perrone, R Scagos, M Krieger… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Springer
… With therapeutic use of the sublingual transmucosal buprenorphine/naloxone formulation, …
blocking” effect of buprenorphine on heroin or fentanyl use. However, buprenorphine’s avid …

The effects of buprenorphine on fentanyl withdrawal in rats

AW Bruijnzeel, C Marcinkiewcz, S Isaac, MM Booth… - …, 2007 - Springer
… a continuous increase in the abuse of fentanyl (Gilson et al. 2004). The abuse of fentanyl and
its analogs have … Naloxone, fentanyl, and buprenorphine doses are expressed as the salt. …

Flexible buprenorphine/naloxone model of care for reducing opioid use in individuals with prescription-type opioid use disorder: an open-label, pragmatic …

D Jutras-Aswad, B Le Foll, K Ahamad… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
… Third, we analyzed (exploratory post hoc) the main outcome by subgroups for fentanyl use
(ie, urine drug screen positive for fentanyl at least once during the study, versus none). Fourth, …