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Article: Darts & laurels.(Baltimore Sun)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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LAUREL to the Baltimore Sun for spotlighting abuse and street sales of buprenorphine, a widely hailed prescription drug for treating opiate addiction, in a series of well reported articles published late last year. And a mini-DART to the same series for ultimately failing to put the "bupe" problem in proper context (see Editor's Note, page 9).
As the Sun explained, bupe is a significant advance over methadone, the long-dominant treatment for heroin and painkiller addiction. Methadone provides a stronger high than bupe and can be fatal in an overdose. Suboxone, an FDA-approved form of buprenorphine, forestalls euphoria past a ...