Table 1.
Home-based buprenorphine induction kit
| Contents | Purpose | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruction sheet | |||
| What's in the kit? | Guide to medications | ||
| When to start Suboxone | Guide to timing of treatment initiation |
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| Things not to do | Guide to appropriate behaviors/treatment |
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| How to take Suboxone | Facilitate correct dosing | ||
| Plan | Provide schedules and facilitate follow-up |
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| What was taken? | Manage/Track medications taken |
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| Medications | |||
| No. of pills | Medication | Dose (mg) | |
| 10 | Buprenorphine/ Naloxone |
2/0.5 | Initiate buprenorphine treatment (Day 1) |
| 4 | Buprenorphine/ Naloxone |
8/2.0 | Continue buprenorphine treatment (Days 2–3) |
| 6 | Ibuprofen | 200 | Manage withdrawal symptoms: pain |
| 6 | Clonidine | 0.1 | Manage withdrawal symptoms: anxiety |
| 6 | Loperamide hydrochloride |
2.0 | Manage withdrawal symptoms: diarrhea |