‘Reassuring’ findings on buprenorphine in pregnancy

New findings on exposure to buprenorphine compared with methadone in pregnancy “help reinforce practices that we are already seeing,” says leading addiction pharmacist Researchers who studied more than 18,000 pregnancies exposed to buprenorphine or methadone have found there was no increased risk of long-term adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes among children with prenatal exposure to buprenorphine. The