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Re: need advice grinding, measuring » pseudoname

Posted by Larry Hoover on November 20, 2005, at 17:19:44

In reply to need advice grinding, measuring, posted by pseudoname on November 20, 2005, at 15:55:07

> I'm titrating my dose of sublingual buprenorphine up from 0.1 mg / day to ...dunno ...maybe 2.0 eventually.
>
> PROBLEM: The smallest tablet in the US is 2.0 mg. So there's no way to get a consistent fraction of that in the 0.1 to 0.2 mg range. I'm just looking at the broken pieces & guessing.
>
> I could grind up a tablet and scoop some of the powder under my tongue, but how would I know how much? Is there a trick to dosing this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

If the tablet is meant for sublingual use, it dissolves....right?

Dissolve a tablet in a small but precisely known volume of water. The dose is then proportional to the volume of water consumed.

An example would be to dissolve a tablet in 20 drops of water (from an eyedropper). Then each drop of the solution thus prepared would be .1 mg. One drop under the tongue....

Weigh scales that would do what you would like are very expensive, and I think they're monitored by the drug police.

Tricky work, no doubt.

Lar

 

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