Low dose IV buprenorphine inductions for patients with opioid use disorder and concurrent pain: a retrospective case series

Table 1 Summary of published buprenorphine low dose induction protocols

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Bernes method	0.2 SL	0.2 SL	2.8 SL	4.5 SL	5 SL
Hammig (2016)	0.2 SL	0.8 SL	1.2 SL	1.8 SL	2.0 SL
Terasaki (2019)	0.5 SL	1.0 SL	2.0 SL	4.0 SL	8.0 SL
Crane (2020)	0.1 IV	1.1 IV	1.2 IV	1.6 IV	1.5 IV
Teck (2021)	0.4 SL	0.4 SL	0.8 SL	1.2 SL	1.6 SL
Jablonski (2022)	1.0 IV	1.8 IV	4.0 SL	–	–

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