BUPRENORPHINE vs BUPRENORPHINE AND NALOXONE

Hi! I am currently spending a lot of time at a store where a large number of patients request white buprenorphine tabs. At my home store we give what we have and have never messed around with special ordering for this request. This store has people driving from all over to get the white tablets. Whe

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59M, 79.1kg, Caucasian, very active and healthy, no medical issues whatsoever. My husband had a seizure this morning and we have no idea what caused it. Today started out normal. We woke up, ate breakfast and took the dog for a walk like every morning. We got home and within about an hour he starte

I've been to the emergency clinic twice now as directed by my doctor because she doesn't know what to do. I'm awaiting a surgery on my ovary and bowel, I have been taking oxycodone for about a year while waiting. On Wednesday, the doctors decided to change my oxy to buprenorphine patches that the em

Assuming that someone on MMT or ORT (buprenorphine or methadone) is not taking anything unprescribed and is having regular urine tests, do you think they should be allowed to be a Pharmacist in a role handling strong opioids and other controlled substances?

does nobody have that shit nowadays? *nurse calls down and tells me she can't give this guy his meds thru NG because they took it out. "yes he's taking oral meds, but these are ordered NG, how do I give them?".* **put them in his mouth holy shit.** *coworker spends an hour working up pk on a vanco,

I posted the pictures in the comments below. Hello, 41f with lifelong malaise and fatigue. About 10 years ago my hands started swelling and turning red. The red never goes away and now my knees and ankles are also red and mottled. Dermatologist #1 said it was contact irritant dermititis. 2nd derm

This article from the NYC Times talks about how Acadia (largest for-profit psych provider in US) has been billing for fake counseling sessions and improperly enrolling patients. The business puports 1.3 billion in revenue for 2022 for the clinics alone. My question is why don't states require a mini

My pharmacy software/label limits us to 28 characters to fit on the label for the drug name and strength. Curious if anyone else has a similar problem and how they shorten those long drug names while still making it patient/Board friendly? Some examples I'm struggling with: Generic symbicort, bupre

I had a new pt drop off an rx for monotherapy buprenorphine the other day. The MD office told me the diagnosis is for substance use disorder. I asked why suboxone isn’t being used and was told that the pt has an intolerance to suboxone. SAMHSA only mentions pregnant women as a reason to use monot

Age: 65 Sex: Female Height: 5’1’’ Weight: 91lbs Race: Caucasian Duration of complaint: 3 months (since prescribed Bupe) - 4 Years w/ Palliative Care (Upon Diagnosis of Cancer) - Pain Management since: 2009 (Fractured 2 Vertebra in Lower Spine) Location: Central Illinois Any existing relevant medic

I’m talking about the nonstandard home does. For example, buprenorphine-naloxone 2-0.5 mg and the patient takes 0.5 tabs per day. According to the med guide, the sublingual tabs can’t be cut. However, I have worked places in the past that have made half tabs or even quarter tabs. Although they are

I've seen doctors write for patient to take 1/2 tablet or film of Buprenorphine/naloxone, but isn't this drug listed on the do not cut list?

Does buprenorphine count towards the MME equivalent restrictions and how do you handle high dose prescriptions? Especially with other narcotic adjunct medications? I’m seeing more and more of this in the age of synthetic opiates and we all know the naloxone is useless in suboxone so should i look a

Hello everyone, I'm a 38 year old male with a healthy weight. I take thyroid medicine for hypothyroidism. Other than that I don't have any other medical issues. On April 13th I stopped Medication Assisted Treatment for a past addiction to opiates. For the first few years I was taking M

Hey guys, I tried to get answers from my pharmacist and got nothing. Patient here with fibromyalgia and opioid misuse disorder. Something weird happened at my CVS in LA County the other day, where they told me that the state of California no longer considers the copay assistance cards given to Subo