Other medicines such as:methadone (Methadose) buprenorphine (Sublocade) buprenorphine combined with naloxone (Suboxone, Zubsolv) naltrexone (Vivitrol)are used in the treatment of opioid dependence (addiction), either from prescription drugs or illicit narcotics such as heroin6. Sublocade, Suboxone, ...
In an ideal world, I would prefer that people have access to buprenorphine-maintenance medication to get off of strong prescription opioids. With buprenorphine, you know the dose, it's well-characterized clinically—I did my first undergraduate research project on it in 1983—and we know there ...
Weak or short-acting opioids (eg, codeine, dihydrocodeine, and dextropropoxyphene), drugs with mixed effects (tramadol, tapentadol), and partial opioid agonists (transdermal buprenorphine) are advised if the result with nonopioid analgesics was not satisfactory.9,92 There are s...
This fact is interesting because of the lack of anti-aggressive medicines, on the one hand, and the frequency of violent syndromes among psychiatric patients, on the other. Apart from clozapine [171,172], in fact, antipsychotic agents show a reduced ability to control violence outside a ...