Longer tapering more effective for prescription opioid addiction

From Clinical Psychiatry News, 23 October 2013: Longer duration of buprenorphine tapering regime is significantly associated with superior outcomes in treatment for prescription opioid addiction, a double-blind randomized trial has found. The study was published online Oct. 23 in JAMA Psychiatry. “Our results suggest that a subset of [prescription opioid] abusers may respond favorably to Continue reading Longer tapering more effective for prescription opioid addiction