New Data: Buprenorphine and Benzodiazepine Overdose Risk | November 2, 2022
Date of Presentation: November 2, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Hepatitis C
Keywords: #benzo #benzodiazepine #bup #buprenorphine #clonidine #literature #od #overdose #suboxone
In this presentation, Dr. Jasen Christensen, DO, discusses how the addition of buprenorphine changes overdose risk, explains the affect of buprenorphine on risk for benzodiazepine overdose and describes the use of Clonidine in MOUD treatment.
Recording:
Presented by:
Dr. Jasen Christensen, DO
Dr. Jasen Christensen, DO, is an associate professor and psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico.
Resources Provided:
- To claim CE
- The Association Between Benzodiazepine Prescriptions and Drug-Related Poisonings Among Patients Receiving Buprenorphine Maintenance: A Case-Crossover Analysis (Am J Psychiatry)
- Opioid agonist treatment and fatal overdose risk in a state-wide US population receiving opioid use disorder services (Addiction)
- Treatment retention among patients randomized to buprenorphine/naloxone compared to methadone in a multi-site trial (Addiction)
- Prolonging of Opioid Abstinence and Decoupling of Stress From Craving in Daily Life With Clonidine Maintenance Treatment (Am Journ of Psych)
- Using ecological momentary assessment to examine the relationship between craving and affect with opioid use in a clinical trial of clonidine as an adjunct medication to buprenorphine treatment (Am J Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
- Acute Pain Management for Patients Receiving Maintenance Methadone or Buprenorphine Therapy (Ann Intern Med)
- Chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, and opioid intake: A systematic review (World J Clin Cases)
Date added: November 2, 2022
