How to Use buprenorphine in a Sentence

buprenorphine

noun

• The act also waives the limit on the number of patients a doctor can treat with buprenorphine.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 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
• Many jails and prisons—places where people with substance-use disorders endlessly cycle—refuse to prescribe methadone and buprenorphine.
  — Zachary Siegel, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
• The use of alternative, less-dangerous opioid drugs such as methadone and buprenorphine to wean people off heroin or cushion them through withdrawal has helped.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• The goal was to get patients same-day prescriptions for buprenorphine, a lifesaving medication that treats opioid use disorder.
  — Margaret Lowenstein, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
• In fact, buprenorphine prescriptions for adolescents declined as overdose deaths for 10- to 19-year-olds more than doubled.
  — Martha Bebinger, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• That therapy provides users with buprenorphine, methadone and other drugs in an attempt to wean them off harmful addictions to heroin or prescription narcotics.
  — Author: Lenny Bernstein, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Nov. 2017
• The office lists the acute effects of the drug as the main cause of his death and added drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid use, as contributing factors.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2024
• One treatment for addiction is essentially less-powerful opioids such as buprenorphine, which can be effective for patients but now has its own black market.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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, 15 Aug. 2024
• It can be used with methadone or buprenorphine (Suboxone) or naloxone (Narcan) or naltrexone (Vivitrol).
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• And it’s buprenorphine, rather than methadone, that’s at the center of the fight over MAT.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024