Drug interactions
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This website provides a "Drug Interactions Checker" that explains drug interactions. Furthermore, the significance level of the drug interaction is classified as major, moderate, or minor drug interactions. You can also check for food/lifestyle and disease interactions.
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Drugs.com (Drugs Information Online)
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Developed by a consensus panel, these guidelines provide treatment recommendations for patients with dual disorders.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA
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- Screening and diagnosis
- Special populations
- Managing challenging patients
- Addiction
- Assessment
- Behavioral therapy
- Comorbidities
- Complicated patients
- Dependence
- Drug interactions
- Expert panel
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Pharmacy
- Polysubstance use
- Psychiatric
- Psychosocial
- Referral
- Relapse
- Risk factors
- Screening
- Side effects
- Special populations
- Symptoms
- Tolerance
- Withdrawal
- Treatment Algorithm
- Experienced prescriber
- Just became waivered
- Need to refer
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This web page provides information for the patient on pronunciation, brand names, common uses, how to use, missed doses, precautions, side effects, drug interactions, proper storage, and more.
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Kaiser Permanente (2 votes)
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This short paragraph on why patients should not combine buprenorphine with sedatives, especially benzodiazapines.
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suboxoneheretohelp.com (3 votes)
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This website, funded by SAMHSA, is designed to help physicians to implement office-based buprenorphine treatment using a national network of trained physician mentors.
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Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS) (2 votes)
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- General information - buprenorphine
- Getting a waiver/setting up your practice
- Logistics of buprenorphine treatment
- Addiction
- Behavioral therapy
- Billing
- Complicated patients
- Contraindications
- CPT
- Diversion
- Dosing
- Drug interactions
- HCPCSs
- Hepatitis
- HIV/AIDS
- Induction
- Methadone
- Pain
- Pregnant
- Psychiatric
- Psychosocial
- Special populations
- Suboxone
- Just became waivered
- Setting up a practice
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This overview of buprenorphine includes a brief summary of the mechanism of action, regulatory requirements, pharmacology, and clinical studies.
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medicalletter.org (4 votes)
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This document describes how to manage medications for co-occuring psychiatric disorders in a patient receiving buprenorphine.
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Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS) (3 votes)
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Guideline document discussing interactions between buprenorphine and HIV medication.
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Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS) (3 votes)
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List of drugs that interact with buprenorphine due to their metabolism by Cytochrome P450.
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Indiana University School of Medicine (3 votes)
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