Generic Name: BUPRENORPHINE/NALOXONE - SUBLINGUAL
Pronounced: (BUE-pre-NOR-feen/nal-OX-one)

Suboxone SL Interactions

Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.

Some products that may interact with this medication include:

• narcotic antagonists (such as naltrexone)
• certain narcotic pain medications (mixed narcotic agonist-antagonists such as butorphanol, nalbuphine, pentazocine)

Other medications can affect the removal of buprenorphine from your body, which may affect how buprenorphine works. Examples include azole antifungals (such as ketoconazole), HIV medications (such as atazanavir), macrolide antibiotics (such as erythromycin), rifamycins (such as rifabutin), St. John's wort, drugs used to treat seizures (such as carbamazepine, phenytoin), among others.

The risk of serious side effects (such as slow/shallow breathing, severe drowsiness, dizziness) may be increased if this medication is taken with other products that may also affect breathing or cause drowsiness. Therefore, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking other products such as alcohol, allergy or cough-and-cold products, anti-seizure drugs (such as phenobarbital), medicine for sleep or anxiety (such as alprazolam, diazepam, zolpidem), muscle relaxants, other narcotics (such as hydrocodone, oxycodone), and psychiatric medicines (such as risperidone, amitriptyline, trazodone). Your medications or doses of your medications may need to be changed.

Deaths have occurred when this medication has been misused by injecting it ("shooting up"), especially when used in combination with benzodiazepines (such as diazepam) or other depressants such as alcohol or additional narcotics.

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