| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Buprenorphin
Maximum Daily Dose of Buprenorphine
I’d like to thank my readers for their patience during my recent break from blogging. Now that I’m rested, it’s time to start barbequing some sacred cows.
First on my list: limiting the dose of sublingual buprenorphine to 16mg per day.
Recently I’ve heard from physicians who have been told 16mg of sublingual buprenorphine is the highest daily dose that should be prescribed, because studies show that opioid receptors in a human brain are saturated at that dose in most people. While this is true, limiting all patients to 16mg or less neglects research from real life patients. (Jana Burson’s blog, in: ATforum, 19.10.2017)
https://janaburson.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/maximum-daily-dose-of-buprenorphine/