for staying sober is much greater when buprenorphine is made available to the person struggling with addiction for at least a year, according to Dr. Pantalon. "People who stay on it for one consecutive year or longer do far, far better and stay abstinent for longer," he said. "It is a chronic disease, s

artment of emergency medicine, said. "He will have codeine to reinforce his opioid addiction rather than the medications that would treat it," Dr. Pantalon said. "I can understand why there is a lawsuit," he added. According to the complaint, filed on Friday in the Federal District Court, federal prison