Addiction Medicine
Review examines future advances in addiction treatment
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 19th, 2006
According to the review, "In the next decade, we should witness a number of treatment advances for opioids, stimulants, and cannabis derivatives. For opioids, this will include long acting, i.e., one month to one year, injectable or implants of the antagonist naltrexone, injectable or implants of the partial agonist buprenorphine, and innovative detoxification methods using buprenorphine."
"In addition, there should be much wider office based prescribing of buprenorphine for maintenance as financial, stigma, and numerical...
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