Butrans Patch: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates

Name: Butrans Patch: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates
Duration: 5 min 10 s
Description: Butrans is a prescription skin patch that contains buprenorphine, a strong painkiller (opioid). It is used to treat pain that is severe and long-lasting, when other treatments have not worked well enough. The patch is worn on the skin and changed once every 7 days.

Butrans Patch

Generic name	buprenorphine
Drug class	Opioids (opioid analgesic / strong painkiller)
Forms	Transdermal skin patch (5, 7.5, 10, 15, and 20 micrograms/hour)

Butrans is a prescription skin patch that contains buprenorphine, a strong painkiller (opioid). It is used to treat pain that is severe and long-lasting, when other treatments have not worked well enough. The patch is worn on the skin and changed once every 7 days.

General information

Follow the prescriber and the leaflet that comes with this medicine.