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How do you suggest transitioning someone from methadone to buprenorphine for the purpose of pain management?

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General Internal Medicine · UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
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Hello!

I have had to do this on a number of occasions as a Palliative Care physician and hospitalist. To my knowledge there are a couple of approaches that can be taken, but no singular validated consensus approach in the literature.

I have generally utilized a low-dose buprenorphine initiation to t...

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