Clinical and pharmacological evaluation of buprenorphine and naloxone combinations: why the 4: 1 ratio for treatment?

J Mendelson, RT Jones - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2003 - Elsevier
… In our study of three dose ratios of buprenorphine and naloxone, we assessed the ability
of these combinations to attenuate opioid agonist effects. The opiate agonist effects of …

Buprenorphine and naloxone combinations: the effects of three dose ratios in morphine-stabilized, opiate-dependent volunteers

J Mendelson, RT Jones, S Welm, M Baggott… - …, 1999 - Springer
… for this 4:1 dose ratio. Their Þndings are concordant … buprenorphine to naloxone ratios and
doses was not examined (Fudala et al. 1996). In contrast, we examined a range of dose ratios

Buprenorphine/naloxone: a review of its use in the treatment of opioid dependence

JS Orman, GM Keating - Drugs, 2009 - Springer
… different dose ratios of buprenorphine/naloxone have been investigated to determine the
optimal ratio in a full agonist opioid-dependent population.[35–41] In a key trial, buprenorphine

Effects of buprenorphine/naloxone in opioid-dependent humans

KB Stoller, GE Bigelow, SL Walsh, EC Strain - Psychopharmacology, 2001 - Springer
… combining buprenorphine with naloxone in a 4:1 ratio have … Low doses of injected
buprenorphine/naloxone have been … of buprenorphine/naloxone combinations over a broad dose

Pharmacokinetics and subjective effects of sublingual buprenorphine, alone or in combination with naloxone: lack of dose proportionality

DS Harris, JE Mendelson, ET Lin, RA Upton… - Clinical …, 2004 - Springer
Naloxone (alone) in much larger doses is sufficiently well … -dependent persons, but doses
of sublingual naloxone of up to 1–… [9] Naloxone in a ratio of buprenorphine to naloxone of 4 : 1 …

Pharmacokinetics of the combination tablet of buprenorphine and naloxone

CN Chiang, RL Hawks - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2003 - Elsevier
… of buprenorphine and naloxone at a fixed dose ratio of 4:1 has … buprenorphine and naloxone
at a fixed dose ratio of 4:1 (2 mg buprenorphine:0.5 mg naloxone and 8 mg buprenorphine

Buprenorphine alone or with naloxone: Which is safer?

E Kelty, C Cumming, L Troeung… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… The addition of naloxone does not appear to improve the safety profile of buprenorphine. …
®) was altered to include an opioid antagonist, naloxone (NLX) in a 4:1 ratio (Suboxone®), …

Buprenorphinenaloxone therapy in pain management

KY Chen, L Chen, J Mao - Anesthesiology, 2014 - pubs.asahq.org
… composed of buprenorphine and naloxone in a fixed 4:1 ratio. The fixed ratio was based on
… In high doses, buprenorphine functions as an opioid antagonist to further limit its analgesic …

Abuse liability of intravenous buprenorphine vs. buprenorphine/naloxone: Importance of absolute naloxone amount

JD Jones, JM Manubay, S Mogali, VE Metz… - Drug and alcohol …, 2017 - Elsevier
… abuse liability of various doses of intravenous Bup and Nx at an ≈4/1 ratio. Specifically, we
… amount of Bup and Nx differed while the ratio remained unchanged. Only the positive control …

Buprenorphine and naloxone for heroin dependence

RE Johnson, JC McCagh - Current psychiatry reports, 2000 - Springer
… designed to determine appropriate combination dose ratios, clinical efficacy and dosage
effectiveness of the 4:1 buprenorphine/ naloxone ratio to reduce potential for parenteral abuse. …