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Hair Analysis for Long-Term Monitoring of Buprenorphine Intake in Opiate Withdrawal

Valentina Pirro, Ivana Fusari, Daniele Di Corcia, Enrico Gerace, Enrico De Vivo, Alberto Salomone, Marco Vincenti

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring · 2014 · 13 citations · 23 references

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Remarkably, all hair samples yielded BUP concentrations higher than 10 pg/mg, even when the lowest dosage was administered. Thus, these results support the selection of 10 pg/mg as a cutoff value.

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