Discontinuing Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder: What Do We (Not) Know?

Am J Psychiatry

Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Mass.

Published: February 2020

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