My name is Sharon Brown, and I am an Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner practicing at a family medicine clinic in Anacortes, WA. I am also the Palliative Nurse Practitioner at Island Hospital. I initially sought the education for x-waiver buprenorphine to educate myself about the medication and use because my sister was prescribed this medication as a cancer patient and it was not something I'd used previously for pain associated with malignant melanoma. She subsequently was transitioned to methadone after a really awful detox experience, but that is beside the point.
I quickly reali
