A Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Addiction (VCH)

Vancouver Coastal Health
Providence Health Care

This guideline endorses the use of buprenorphine/naloxone as a preferred first-line treatment for opioid addiction. This recommendation, the authors write, is in line with the growing body of research suggesting that buprenorphine is superior to methadone, mainly due to its lower overdose risk.