Your Butrans Resource Center

Pamphlets and programs to help your treatment with Butrans

Helpful resources to download

• The Butrans Medication Guide, which gives you important safety information about Butrans
View the Butrans Medication Guide & Instructions for Use
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• The Butrans Full Prescribing Information
View the Full Prescribing Information
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• Patch Application Skin Site Tracker (printable)
  Track your application sites for Butrans.
  
  
• Patch Application & Rotation Tutorial (online)
  Get step-by-step instructions on how to properly apply, rotate, and dispose of the Butrans patch.

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)

Butrans is subject to the Opioid Analgesics REMS

The goal of the REMS is to reduce serious adverse outcomes resulting from inappropriate prescribing, abuse, and misuse of opioid analgesics, while maintaining patient access to pain medications. Adverse outcomes of concern include addiction, unintentional overdose, and death.

• FDA has required a REMS for opioid analgesics
• Purdue Pharma is a member of the REMS Program Companies

Butrans should be prescribed only by healthcare professionals who are knowledgeable in the use of potent opioids for the management of chronic pain.

Documentation and maintenance of careful prescribing and treatment records are essential, and should include:

• Physician and patient agreement
• Proper assessment of the patient
• Proper prescribing practices
• Periodic reevaluation of therapy
• Proper dispensing and correct storage and handling
• Careful record keeping of prescribing information, including quantity, frequency, and renewal requests, is strongly advised
• Providing patient and/or caregiver with the
  Medication Guide
• Reviewing the Opioid REMS
  Patient Counseling Guide
  with the patient and/or caregiver at the time of prescribing