suboxone
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Marketing name.
Noun
[edit]suboxone (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A combination of buprenorphine and naloxone, used to treat opiate addictions.
- Coordinate term: OxyContin
- 2012 August 23, Conor Friedersdorf, quoting Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, “What OxyContin Addicts in West Virginia Tell Us About the War on Drugs”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- Not far behind OxyContin is Suboxone, the brand name for a drug whose primary ingredient is buprenorphine, a semisynthetic opioid.