Reply to: An alternative way of managing acute pain in patients who are in buprenorphine opioid substitution therapy programmes

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We appreciate Dr Huxtable's and Dr Macintyre's interest1 in our review article about the perioperative management of pain in patients who abuse opioids. We have attentively read the letter to the editor by Huxtable et al? describing an extremely interesting alternative way of managing acute pain in patients who are in buprenorphine opioid substitution therapy (BOST) programmes.