Buccal film application. BELBUCA uses a different delivery system that efficiently delivers buprenorphine through the inside of your cheek. Learn more about the technology

The BELBUCA buccal film technology helps the medicine, buprenorphine, get into your body more quickly than when it is swallowed. When swallowed, buprenorphine is significantly less effective at treating your pain.

Learn how to apply BELBUCA buprenorphine buccal film. Get tips on starting BELBUCA and effectively initiating BELBUCA treatment. See Important Safety Information, including Boxed Warning on addiction, abuse, and misuse and other serious risks.

To reduce the risk of respiratory depression, proper dosing and titration of BELBUCA are essential. Misuse or abuse of BELBUCA by chewing, swallowing, snorting, or injecting buprenorphine extracted from the buccal film will result in the uncontrolled delivery of buprenorphine and poses a significant risk of overdose and death. Accidental Exposure

Why a film? The proprietary BELBUCA film technology helps the medicine, buprenorphine, get into your bloodstream more directly than when it is swallowed. When swallowed, buprenorphine is significantly less effective at treating severe and persistent pain.

BELBUCA (buprenorphine buccal film) is for the treatment of severe and persistent pain when other treatment options, including immediate-release opioids, are inadequate. See Important Safety Information, including Boxed Warning on addiction, abuse, …

BELBUCA is a thin, square film that you put in your mouth and press against the inside of your cheek. The film delivers the medicine, buprenorphine, efficiently through the inside of your cheek, entering your bloodstream more directly. BELBUCA is the first and only schedule III opioid using buprenorphine buccal film technology

Discover BELBUCA, the first and only long-acting opioid to use buprenorphine buccal film technology to treat severe and persistent pain. See Important Safety Information, including Boxed Warning on addiction, abuse, and misuse and other serious risks.

*BELBUCA (buprenorphine buccal film) is indicated for the management of severe and persistent pain that requires an extended treatment period with a daily opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatment options are inadequate.

*BELBUCA ® (buprenorphine buccal film) CIII is: A strong prescription pain medicine that contains an opioid (narcotic) that is used to manage severe and persistent pain that requires an extended treatment period with a daily opioid pain medicine when other pain medicines do not treat your pain well enough or you cannot tolerate them.