increasing concern about patients abusing Stadol NS (butorphanol nasal spray)

May 1996

There's increasing concern about patients abusing Stadol NS (butorphanol nasal spray).

Stadol NS is not a FEDERALLY controlled substance. But several states have decided to treat it as a controlled substance...Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, and South Dakota.

Butorphanol is an opioid agonist AND antagonist. It's less prone to abuse than pure agonists such as morphine...but some patients using butorphanol experience euphoria...and get hooked.

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