How to Use buprenorphine in a Sentence

buprenorphine

noun
  • Short of that, providing buprenorphine for just a few days could help.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
  • At least one study has shown that use of non-prescribed buprenorphine is protective.
    — Joëlla W. Adams, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Still, access to buprenorphine is not without its challenges.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
  • There are restrictions on who can prescribe buprenorphine and where it can be obtained.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But methadone and buprenorphine are not provided, not even to ease the pains of withdrawal.
    — Felice J. Freyer, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Methadone is a full opioid agonist while buprenorphine is a partial one.
    — Kate Bolduan, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Programs to help patients reduce or quit their use of opioids, such as those that use buprenorphine.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Even those pharmacies that aim to stock buprenorphine can run into problems.
    — Nina Feldman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • After years of struggling with painkiller and heroin use, buprenorphine helped her stop using.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 26 Dec. 2018
  • The act also waives the limit on the number of patients a doctor can treat with buprenorphine.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • An injection of buprenorphine lasts a month but costs $1,630.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • In Boston, there’s a mobile van that takes buprenorphine prescribing to the streets.
    — Martha Bebinger, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • 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
  • Getting her off heroin or painkillers and getting her on to buprenorphine is a priority.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 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
  • The rules also carve out an exception for buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • 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 implant is the safest delivery system of buprenorphine for folks like me who need daily, long-term treatment.
    — Sarah Wilson As Told To Maria Carter, Woman's Day, 22 Apr. 2016
  • And few doctors cite the waiver process as the main barrier to prescribing buprenorphine.
    — Nickolas D. Zaller, STAT, 22 Feb. 2021
  • For instance, a single shot of buprenorphine costs more than $1,200 and cuts cravings for a month.
    — Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • But given the evidence on buprenorphine, the approach seems, at least in theory, sound.
    — 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
  • And indeed, illicit buprenorphine is one of the most common forms of contraband in prisons and jails.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Not all are addicted to opioids, and not all who came in opioid-dependent choose to receive buprenorphine.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • For example, the opioid buprenorphine is often given to lab rodents and monkeys as a painkiller.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The number of people on buprenorphine alone has increased dramatically over the past four years.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • While methadone and buprenorphine have been in existence much longer, the drugs include narcotics, making the potential for abuse stronger.
    — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 10 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Opioid use disorder can be treated with buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Police said Hines illegally got the buprenorphine, in the form of the drug Suboxone.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019

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