Buprenorphine for Prescription Opioid Addiction in a Patient With Depression and Alcohol Dependence

Another (3) showed that approximately 1.7 million Americans had a past-year prescription opioid use disorder, second only to cannabis use disorder.\n Office-based treatment also provides the opportunity to integrate addiction treatment into mainstream health care, shift away from an acute care model to one that is "disease management" oriented, and accelerate a broader adoption of pharmacotherapies into broader addiction treatment. Buprenorphine as part of a comprehensive medication-assisted recovery approach--combined, for example, with counseling, treatment of additional nonopioid substance use disorders, and treatment of comorbid psychiatric illness--provides an important tool for relapse prevention and should be a mainstay of the standard repertoire for treating opioid dependence.