How to Use buprenorphine in a Sentence

buprenorphine

noun
  • Nor did a doctor prescribe buprenorphine or explain the importance of the medication to Carrie.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Other contributing factors included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The autopsy report also cited drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine — a drug used to treat opioid use disorder — as contributing to his death.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
  • His death was ruled an accident, and other contributing factors included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The buprenorphine helped at first, but then stopped working.
    Brie Zeltner, cleveland.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Patients can stay on buprenorphine for months or even years.
    Tony Leys, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Short of that, providing buprenorphine for just a few days could help.
    German Lopez, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
  • The act also waives the limit on the number of patients a doctor can treat with buprenorphine.
    Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Still, half the counties in the United States don’t have a single buprenorphine prescriber.
    Abby Goodnough, New York Times, 23 June 2018
  • But methadone and buprenorphine are not provided, not even to ease the pains of withdrawal.
    Felice J. Freyer, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In Boston, there’s a mobile van that takes buprenorphine prescribing to the streets.
    Martha Bebinger, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • At least one study has shown that use of non-prescribed buprenorphine is protective.
    Joëlla W. Adams, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Subutex, the brand name for buprenorphine, is taken as a tablet placed under the tongue and allowed to dissolve.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Programs to help patients reduce or quit their use of opioids, such as those that use buprenorphine.
    Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The implant is the safest delivery system of buprenorphine for folks like me who need daily, long-term treatment.
    Sarah Wilson As Told To Maria Carter, Woman's Day, 22 Apr. 2016
  • There are restrictions on who can prescribe buprenorphine and where it can be obtained.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • After years of struggling with painkiller and heroin use, buprenorphine helped her stop using.
    German Lopez, Vox, 26 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • And indeed, illicit buprenorphine is one of the most common forms of contraband in prisons and jails.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • 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 Urban League report found that as of 2015, the Chicago area had the lowest buprenorphine treatment capacity of any metro area in the Midwest.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • But given the evidence on buprenorphine, the approach seems, at least in theory, sound.
    German Lopez, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
  • City Hall has sought to increase the number of physicians certified to prescribe buprenorphine.
    Written By Jose A. Del Real; Photographs By Ryan Christopher Jones, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018

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