When you think about Buprenorphine, if you think of it at all, you might just consider it to be an opioid agonist therapy used to treat people with opioid addiction. But what is Buprenorphine? What are its unique properties?

In what circumstances can I prescribe it to benefit my palliative patients? How do I easily adapt it into my arsenal of care?

Objectives:

1. Review Buprenorphine
2. Discuss uses in palliative care: hyperalgesia, dysphagia, OUD and beyond!
3. Understand Microdosing/Macrodosing

Speaker: 

Dr. Sharon Koivu – Addiction/Palliative Care Physician Consultant London Health Sciences Centre, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital and Adjunct Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Western University

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