PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Helwick, Caroline
ED  - Weiss, Roger D.
TI  - Prescription Opioid Dependence: Relapses Associated with Shorter Treatment Course
DP  - 2010 Aug 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 13--14
VI  - 10
IP  - 4
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/4/13.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/4/13.full
AB  - The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network Prescription Opioid Addiction Treatment Study found that patients who tapered off prescription opioids using buprenorphine during a 9-month period, whether initially or after a period of improvement, almost universally relapsed.