{"id":717,"date":"2013-02-05T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=717"},"modified":"2013-02-05T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:54:33","slug":"news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2013\/02\/05\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-37\/","title":{"rendered":"News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\/\">www.palliativedrugs.com<\/a>, the world\u2019s leading palliative care website.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Drug updates<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Suboxone SL tablets replaced by SL film in US<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sublingual (SL) combination tablets containing buprenorphine and naloxone (Suboxone<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>; Reckitt Benckiser, Warren, NJ, USA), are being replaced by a sublingual film in the US. The tablet formulation, authorized for maintenance treatment in opioid dependence, is now off-patent and available as a generic product. The manufacturer states that the sublingual film has a faster dissolving rate, a more favourable taste and improved child-safety packaging. For the SPC click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suboxone.com\/pdfs\/SuboxonePI.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pecfent in use expiry extended to 60 days<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The UK SPC for Pecfent (fentanyl citrate) nasal spray 100microgram\/spray and 400microgram\/spray has been updated. The in-use expiry of the product has been extended from 14 days to 60 days i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicines.org.uk\/EMC\/medicine\/23962\/SPC\/PecFent\/\">the SPC<\/a>\u00a0now reads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the product has not been used for 5 days, re-prime by spraying once. Discard bottle 60 days after first opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Prepared by Sarah Charlesworth and Andrew Wilcock<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world\u2019s leading palliative care website. &nbsp; Drug updates &nbsp; Suboxone SL tablets replaced by SL film in US Sublingual (SL) combination tablets containing buprenorphine and naloxone (Suboxone\u00ae; Reckitt Benckiser, Warren, NJ, USA), are being replaced by a sublingual film in the US. The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2013\/02\/05\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-37\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}