A drug dealer caught with a haul of illegal tablets stashed in a saltshaker just months into his lengthy prison term has been ...

Of the 1.1 million Medicare recipients with opioid-use disorder, 170,408 were prescribed buprenorphine in 2021, of which just 1,245 – or 0.7% – potentially misused the drug due to high dosages ...

While buprenorphine products — medication brand names include Suboxone and Zubsolv — aren't the only drugs used to treat opioid addiction, they have advantages.

Suboxone and buprenorphine: Costs Costs for Suboxone or generic buprenorphine prescriptions vary significantly based on the dose prescribed, from $100 a month to $800 a month, far less for generics.

Don’t let the maker of a buprenorphine drug abuse the Orphan Drug Act. By Diane Dorman May 28, 2019. Reprints. A demonstration dose of Indivior's Suboxone film strips. M. Spencer Green/AP.

Health Anti-addiction drug buprenorphine may cut risk of future fatal overdose by 62%: study The study found that taking buprenorphine significantly lowers of subsequent opioid overdose death ...

Nearly 107,000 people in the United States died of drug overdoses from early 2021 through early 2022, compared with 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

In the 12-month period ending in April, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses -- the most recorded in a year-long span. Most of those overdoses involved opioids. Public ...

“People still refer to medications like methadone and Suboxone as replacing one drug with another,” Michaels said. “Two decades later, we still have all this misinformation.” As recently as the ...

Why More People Can’t Get Suboxone, The Drug That Might Have Saved Prince For some, Suboxone is just another addiction. But for many many others it’s a lifesaver.