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General Internal Medicine • Addiction • Primary Care • General Primary Care • Addiction Medicine • Addiction Psychiatry
When (if ever) do you recommend taping a patient off of buprenorphine after sustained remission?
If so, you have a recommended tapering strategy?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I rarely recommend tapering off of buprenorphine after sustained remission for opioid use disorder (OUD) because typically buprenorphine is well-tolerated, risks are minimal, tapering can be challenging, and risk of overdose after tapering off MOUD is high.Instances when I would consider a taper is ...
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