Infectious Disease (ID) Learning Unit: What the ID Clinician Needs to Know About Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

In the context of an escalating opioid epidemic, infectious disease clinicians increasingly treat the infectious complications of injection drug use. In this learning unit, we review the history, pharmacology, and clinical use of buprenorphine as maintenance therapy for opioid use disorder, and we d...

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Autores principales: Westlake, Amanda A., Eisenberg, Mark P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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ID Learning Unit
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5413994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28480247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw251
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description In the context of an escalating opioid epidemic, infectious disease clinicians increasingly treat the infectious complications of injection drug use. In this learning unit, we review the history, pharmacology, and clinical use of buprenorphine as maintenance therapy for opioid use disorder, and we describe the process by which clinicians can obtain a buprenorphine waiver.
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spelling pubmed-54139942017-05-05 Infectious Disease (ID) Learning Unit: What the ID Clinician Needs to Know About Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Westlake, Amanda A. Eisenberg, Mark P. Open Forum Infect Dis ID Learning Unit In the context of an escalating opioid epidemic, infectious disease clinicians increasingly treat the infectious complications of injection drug use. In this learning unit, we review the history, pharmacology, and clinical use of buprenorphine as maintenance therapy for opioid use disorder, and we describe the process by which clinicians can obtain a buprenorphine waiver. Oxford University Press 2016-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5413994/ /pubmed/28480247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw251 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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