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Buprenorphine, Not Subbies

April 8, 2018 by admin 20 Comments

I’ve been writing longer and longer posts on SuboxForum so maybe I need to write more here.  This blog archives twelve years of frustration over the ignorance toward buprenorphine, at least until I ran out of steam a year ago.  I grew used doctors refusing to treat people addicted to heroin and other opioids.  I became … [Read more…]

Posted in: Addiction, Buprenorphine, recovery, Suboxone, treatment Tagged: addiction treatment, Buprenorphine, stigma, Suboxone, subs

Addiction Treatment Has it ALL WRONG

April 30, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Today on SuboxForum members discussed how long they have been treated with buprenorphine medications.  Most agreed that buprenorphine turned their lives around, and most are afraid they will eventually be pushed off the medication.  Most buprenorphine patients described a reprieve from a horrible illness when they discovered buprenorphine.  But most have new fears that they … [Read more…]

Posted in: Addiction, Buprenorphine, recovery, Suboxone, Suboxone Forum Tagged: addiction counseling, Buprenorphine, character defects, heroin addiction, recovery, Suboxone, Vivitrol

Clearbrook President Gets it Wrong

March 3, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

A blurb in the buprenorphine newsfeed (see the bupe news link in the header of this page), has the headline ‘Suboxone challenged by Clearbrook President’.  I followed the link, and after reading the ‘article’ I wanted to comment to that president but the person’s name wasn’t included, let alone an email address or comment section.  … [Read more…]

Posted in: 12 steps, Addiction, Buprenorphine, recovery, Suboxone, treatment Tagged: abstinence, addiction treatment, medication based treatment, opioid dependence, Suboxone

Menzies Gets it Wrong

March 4, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

In Opioid Addiction Treatment Should Not Last a Lifetime, Percy Menzies resurrects old theories  to tarnish buprenorphine-based addiction treatment.  Methadone maintenance withstood similar attacks over the decades, and remains the gold standard for the most important aspect of treating opioid dependence:  preventing death. Menzies begins by claiming that a number of ideas that never had the support of modern … [Read more…]

Posted in: Addiction, Buprenorphine, recovery, relapse, Suboxone, treatment Tagged: addiction lasts a lifetime, buprenorphine treatment, can addiction be cured, opioid dependence

Media Bias Against Suboxone

March 1, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

First Posted 2.8.2014 After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, I anticipated a flood of articles describing the ineffectiveness of non-medication treatments for opioid dependence.  I assumed the media would finally report on the need for long-term treatment of a long-term illness.  Instead we read more articles describing Suboxone (i.e. buprenorphine) as a ‘bad drug’, since Hoffman may have used the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Buprenorphine, receptor actions, recovery, Suboxone, treatment Tagged: addiction treatment options, buprenorphine and opioid dependence, naltrexone and suboxone treatment, vivitrol treatment

How and When to Stop Buprenorphine or Suboxone

December 2, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

First Posted 12/15/2013 People know my bias—that buprenorphine is best-considered a chronic, perhaps life-long treatment for a chronic, life-long disease.  That said, I am aware of how many people out there are convinced that they need to be ‘off everything,’ no matter the misery opioids have caused in their lives.  I don’t get it; my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Buprenorphine, recovery, Suboxone, Withdrawal Tagged: how long to take suboxone, how to taper buprenorphine, stopping suboxone, when to stop suboxone

Treating Opioid Dependence Harder in Young People

November 8, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Originally Posted 5/11/2013 The forces of nature appear intent on reversing mankind’s progress toward better health.   An example is the ever-increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.  A timeline of the existence of humans and bacteria shows that bacteria have been around for a very long time— much longer than mammals, and much, much longer than humans.  In fact by the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Addiction, Buprenorphine, recovery, treatment Tagged: buprenorphine and younger patients, need for counseling with buprenorphine or suboxone, suboxone treatment

Should Addiction Treatment Include 'Shame'?

November 4, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Originally Posted 3/23/2013 I generally write positive articles about the use of buprenorphine for treating opioid dependence, and my articles have been reflective of my attitude toward the medication. The field of psychiatry encompasses more conditions than it does effective treatments for those conditions, and my initial experiences treating people with buprenorphine were strikingly positive. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Addiction, Psychodynamics, recovery, treatment Tagged: addiction treatment, cycle of shame, opioid addiction, shame and addiction
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