In the fatal world of opioid use disorder (OUD), pharmacotherapy, or using a prescribed medication to treat drug dependence, has emerged as the gold standard of treatment. Among the trio of ...

In the buprenorphine group, risk of congenital malformations was 50.9 out of 1,000 pregnancies compared with 60.6 per 1,000 in the methadone group, Elizabeth Suarez, PhD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new HHS rule permanently allows patients to begin treatment with buprenorphine via telehealth. The rule also ...

Urine drug testing can be valuable for monitoring patients undergoing treatment with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD). However, some patients alter their test results by adding ...

Doctors and advocates are concerned a federal proposal to roll back a pandemic policy allowing remote prescribing of a common opioid substitute medicine could jeopardize those recovering from ...