Building a Bridge Between Primary and Perioperative Care: Addressing the Challenges of Perioperative Buprenorphine Maintenance and Postdischarge Therapy

摘要

As awareness of the opioid use disorder epidemic has increased, the number of people on rehabilitative medication— assisted treatment has seen a concurrent rise. Buprenor- phine, available in multiple preparations, plays an important role in opioid detoxification, addiction therapy, and chronic pain management. Cizdol, Subutex, Suboxone, Zubsolv, and Bunavail are available as buprenorphine hydrochloride (HCl) alone or as a combination of buprenorphine and nal- oxone HCl and are typically used to treat opioid addiction. Temgesic is available as a sublingual tablet to treat moder- ate to severe pain. Buprenex is formulated as a solution for injection and is often used for acute pain in primary care set- tings. Norspan and Butrans are transdermal preparations used for management of chronic pain.