Buprenorphine/Naloxone Maintenance Therapy: an Observational Retrospective Report on the Effect of Dose on 18  months Retention in an Office-Based Treatment Program

Conclusions:
In an observational retrospective report, retention in treatment of opiate-addicted patients was the same at 8 and 16 mg/d buprenorphine doses after 18 months. These data have implications for public and managed care funding of OBOMT, for the general prescribing of buprenorphine in outpatient care, and may be instructive in the ongoing debate about the relationship between buprenorphine dose.

Source: Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment - October 4, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Theodore V Parran AG Mace Yael J Dahan Christopher A Adelman Mykola Kolganov Source Type: research