… whether fentanyl use is associated with buprenorphine treatment … treatment retention and
opioid use among patients initiating treatment with buprenorphine who had either fentanyl …

… to stay in treatment compared with patients using heroin or fentanyl. We found that … use
would be less likely to be retained in treatment compared with single-substance (opioid-only) use; …

… fentanyl use increases the optimal buprenorphine dose, patients prescribed a lower dose
would be more likely to discontinue treatment … dose effects on treatment retention, it will also be …

… informal self-treatment practices with non-prescribed buprenorphine are also impacted. …
-treatment with buprenorphine in an era of non-prescribed fentanyl and fentanyl analogue use. …

… increasingly become the leading contributors to overdose deaths, this study provides
important data suggesting that fentanyl use may not adversely affect buprenorphine initiation nor …

… defined as re-initiating buprenorphine treatment after 60+ consecutive … retention in MOUD.
Our findings indicate gender and age were highly correlated with retention in MOUD treatment…

… of buprenorphine was prescribed, and percentage of weeks participants were retained on
study-assigned buprenorphine … Secondary outcomes of interest were heroin and fentanyl use, …

… treatment retention and ability to achieve remission among fentanyl-exposed patients in the
buprenorphine … worse than patients who were unexposed to fentanyl at treatment initiation. …

… In the midst of an overdose epidemic and in the context of high potency street fentanyl use,
Medicaid policies that restrict buprenorphine doses may be harmful. In fact, as providers, …

… and illicitly manufactured fentanyl [3, 4]. The opioid crisis represents an … buprenorphine
cohorts reported that those with prior buprenorphine experience has better treatment retention …