Belbuca.com Website Review

BELBUCA® (buprenorphine) contains an opioid (narcotic) medication that is used to help manage pain severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock treatment with an opioid. Opioids should only be used when other pain treatments such as non-opioid pain medicines or immediate-release opioid medicines do not treat your pain well enough or you cannot tolerate them. BELBUCA® is different from other opioid medications. BELBUCA® contains buprenorphine, which is a long-acting opioid. This means BELBUCA® can be taken every 12 hours, instead of the every 4 to 6 hours like immediate-release opioids. BELBUCA® comes in the form of a small, thin square film. You don’t sw*llow BELBUCA®, instead, you put the film in your mouth and press it against the inside of your cheek. Within a few seconds, BELBUCA® adheres to the inside of your cheek. While BELBUCA® is dissolving (usually within 30 minutes), you can speak and sw*llow normally. The film technology helps the medicine in BELBUCA® get into your bloodstream more efficiently because, unlike a tablet, it doesn’t have to go through your digestive system first. This delivery allows for pain relief to be achieved with individual doses of less than 1 mg every 12 hours. BELBUCA® was generally well tolerated by patients in clinical studies. Some patients were on opioids before the study began. For those patients, side effects were similar between patients taking BELBUCA® and those not taking study medication (placebo). Constipation was reported by 3% of patients taking BELBUCA® compared to 1% on placebo. Drowsiness was reported by 1% of patients taking