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Lucinda Grande, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington

For opioid addiction, treatment underdosing can lead to fentanyl overdosing – a physician explains

Buprenorphine is most effective when doctors and patients find the right dose together. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Imagine a patient named Rosa tells you she wakes up night after night in a drenching sweat after having very realistic dreams of smoking fentanyl.

The dreams seem crazy to her. Three months ago, newly pregnant, Rosa began visualizing being a good parent. She realized it was finally time to give up her self-destructive use of street fentanyl. With tremendous effort, she started treatment with buprenorphine for her opioid use disorder.

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