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ReviewSubstance abuse and rehabilitation2019

Depot Buprenorphine Injection In The Management Of Opioid Use Disorder: From Development To Implementation.

Walter Ling, Steve Shoptaw, David Goodman-Meza

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Substance abuse and rehabilitation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. New Antipsychotic Medications in the Last Decade.Current psychiatry reports · 2021
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  6. The Socioeconomic Impact of Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2026
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  8. Long-Acting injectable buprenorphine PLGA microparticle formulation.International journal of pharmaceutics · 2025
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  14. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023
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  15. Extended-release monthly buprenorphine injection.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Walter LingUCLA Department of Family Medicine, Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0664-5099
Steve ShoptawUCLA Department of Family Medicine, Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
David Goodman-MezaUCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9382-3564
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

UCLA Rapid, Relevant, Rigorous Implementation Science HubP30MH058107 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Nina Thawata Harawa · 1997 to 2026
$53.5M
Using data science to measure the impact of opioid agonist therapy in patients admitted with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infectionsK08DA048163 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GOODMAN, DAVID · 2019 to 2023
$1.0M
NIDA NIH HHS K08 DA048163NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH058107
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Buprenorphine has pharmacologic advantages over methadone, especially buprenorphine's better safety profile. The true significance of buprenorphine's introduction lies in returning the care of those suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) to the hands of the physician. The clinical success of buprenorphine has been meager, in part because most physicians have not been exposed to treating these patients. For physicians inclined to treat OUD, the barriers to buprenorphine's implementation have been onerous and largely counter to the norms of medical practice. Some notable concerns pertain to buprenorphine's clinical pharmacology like street diversion, unintended use and accidental poisoning. Recently, injectable buprenorphine preparations have been introduced to mitigate these latter shortcomings. Yet, the injectable preparations' clinical and commercial success has fallen far short of expectation. Here, we review the clinical pharmacology of these products and their expected clinical advantages for the manufacturers, clinicians, policy makers and patients, and offer our perspective, as clinicians and researchers, on how things can improve. Questions remain whether clinicians are willing to overcome barriers to treat OUD using these medications.

Indexed as

injectable buprenorphineopioid use disorderstakeholderstreatment barriers

Identifiers

PMID31819701
PMCPMC6889966
OpenAlexW2991527114

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