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= Registered usersPractitioner 2008;252(1709):12
Children who have ingested buprenorphine should be referred to A&E
13 Aug 2008
GPs need to be sure that patients in treatment who have, or who have contact with, children are properly counselled about the safe storage of take-home doses of buprenorphine. Given the absence of any fatality in the study, I would welcome debate about the relative safety of inadvertent methadone and buprenorphine overdoses in children.
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