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"Long-Acting Buprenorphine Implant Effective for Opioid Dependence"

  • Healio's Psychiatric Annals
  • (April 27, 2016)

Phase 3 study results presented at the American Society of Addiction Medicine annual conference indicated efficacy of Probuphine, a 6-month subdermal buprenorphine implant, for long-term maintenance treatment of opioid addiction. “This was the first head-to-head comparison study of Probuphine and sublingual buprenorphine, demonstrating the efficacy of a long acting 6-month buprenorphine implant,” study researcher Richard Rosenthal, MD, medical director of Addiction Psychiatry for the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System, said. Learn more.