Have questions? Let us know at KHNHelp kff. We distribute our journalism for free and without advertising through media partners of all sizes and in communities large and small. We appreciate all forms of engagement from our readers and listeners, and welcome your support. Thank you! Embattled drugmaker Purdue Pharma defends OxyContin as some insurers are dropping the drug in favor of other abuse-deterrent opioid painkillers.
Lawrence K. Alternative Therapies Practicing pain physicians in Tennessee — who regularly battle with insurance companies — also approve of the change, though they said OxyContin was already falling out of favor. A Blessing In Disguise? I have a bad liver and feels like I get worse everytime I take my suboxone. I was wondering if anyone knew any place that would write subtex in Maynardville or Knoxville without having to be pregnant?
Too many people would abuse it and most of those people would more than likely die of an overdose from it or mix it with benzodiazepines or some other drug that slows the heart rate down too much and overdose from that.
Getting it from a clinic is the best way to go. I was given Percocet for years from my doctors for cervical spondylitis. If you take opioids for a long period of time, you will become addicted. I saw a segment on my local news about a Duke University Professor who became addicted to Percocet and eventually started buying on the street.
She started taking Buprenorphine and it changed her life. After a good cry, I made the decision to get help for my addiction. On my next visit to my doctor I requested to stop taking Percs and expressed my interest to try Buprenorphine. I never filled those scripts. I found a doctor that would subscribe me the Buprenorphine. I had to go about a week without my pain medication and I thought I was going to die. It was the worst feeling I had ever felt and everyday was more of the same until I got the Buprenorphine.
Once I had it ,I was back to my old self. Jogging, exercising, enjoying life without always thinking about how I would get more percs. A lot of us trusted our doctors to do what was best for our condition and got dependent on opioids. Yes , I have taken Buprenorphine everyday for 5 years but I try everyday to take as little as possible. Making this medication more available will help people come out of that fog and give them the opportunity to get their life on track again.
Thank you for the article, I think it is a great idea! It definitely saved my life also. Quit cold turkey. And after thet could only sleep 0nce every 4th or 5th night.
After 56 days I went yo a doctor and he put me in Suboxone. One a day, but I found out I could take one every three days and get by. I did that for two and a half years with no problems. I recently met a lady inThailand and moved there.
I was only allowed to bring in a 30 day supply. I stretched them out to one film tab every 4 days. Thought I was being so responsible and would have only minor withdrawals if any at all. I was so wrong. I went 8 days and nights with no sleep. Analogue has exactly the same. This is a dangerous, erroneous suggestion.
DBL Naloxone appears to be the brand name for one supplier of Narcan. There is no hint that it contains buprenorphine. This is simply a classic reversal agent for urgent opioid overdose. Use will put a person habituated to opiates into severe immediate withdrawal whether they are using opiates for pain or for an addiction craving.
This is long overdue!!! Those are the lesser evils of this miserable epidemic. The problem with Buprenorphine is it takes 48 to 72 hours to start due to heroin being practically non existent and patients testing positive for Fentanyl only. With so many forms of synthetic Fentanyl out there. What addict wants to wait sick for 72 hours to start Buprenorphine to get relief? It is barbaric.
Something needs to change ASAP. This is total bullshit. I agree as long as the the subutex is closely monitored why not have it more available. But everyone is talking about stigma with addicts…. These are the forgotten people in the opioid crisis. People are committing suicide, pushed to the streets to find pain relief. They are being killed off by being tapered off their pain medication. And something should really be done!!
I have been struggling with opiate and opioid addiction for what seems over half of my life. The doctor did not take xrays or really check into my story. She seemed more concerned about me not talking to reporters outside of the office if I were approached by them, and what to do and say if police pulled me over after leaving. She started me with 90 10mg Lortab, within a few months I told her I felt I needed more because the pain would come back sooner and so I would take another.
Instead of her questioning me, she switched me to 10mg Percocet. This worked for almost 4 months but soon, again I was telling her I felt I needed more. She kept me on the Percocet at the same dose but added 30 15 mg Roxycontin. Now I will say, this was amazing, my tolerance was so high, I felt nothing. I did not care about that.
Almost a year after my first visit to this doctor, she was shut down. No warning just one day doors were closed. I went home, panicking, trying to find a new doctor to see me. I did not have insurance and most pain management clinics were also now closed.
I could not find a doctor to take me once they knew I had been going to the pain clinic that was shut down. This led me to the streets to find pills, it was awful. I know it was my actions that led me to this but I did not realize how hard withdrawal symptoms from opiates really were. This lasted almost a year with me experiencing withdrawal several times.
The pills were expensive but I remember one time being so sick and so depressed I thought about throwing myself in front of a car so I could be hit, I figured the worst case scenario was I would die from my injuries and the pain would stop or I would be admitted to the ER and the pain would stop.
Even now that seems so crazy to me that I felt that way. Eventually I found a suboxone doctor, I had spoke to a few who were so very rude to me, no compassion what so ever, I did not want them to pity me just treat me like a person. I never came across heroin but if I had I would have used it for sure. I have paid so much money out of pocket over the past several years, I could probably buy a nice house.
Honestly the price is well worth it, it has allowed me to have my life back. I just find that to be absurd. Of and on methadone clinics. Finally I chose to stop and I went to a doctor that prescribes Suboxone. For the first 3 years I had insurance, although the doctor only accepted cash. I have completely leveled out and have no cravings whatsoever. Recently I lost my job and insurance, on top of that hurricane IDA just hit down here.
Is this even legal? Is there a reason why?? As of today I have no medication, no power, no food, nothing. Please, if anyone has any information on this subject send it my way. How can this be ethical? How can this be legal? To clarify, this is suboxone tablets not subutex. This is a huge scam and I fear what I may do to get the medication. I live in Louisiana and have turned my life around, the future looks bleak to me now. I do not know if I can fight this or if I should report the doctor.
The suboxone tablets work well and cost so much less. How and why is this happening? I thought this was a free country especially when it comes to spending money and choosing which to buy.
Help Please! Check the difference in prices at Goodrx. The active agent is the buprenoprhine. It is added to supposedly keep you from shooting up buprennorhine. It is not absorbed orally. But, you will be charged anywhere from 4 to 10x the price of a simple buprenoprhine tablet. Why the drop? Why the initial price gouge? I suggested look on goodrx. I asked if he could cut pills. He said yes. William, that doctor MUST be reported!!! There has to be a representative or a group in your state or your region in Louisiana that is with the war against drugs in our country.
You are clearly being harmed by the doctor treating you. Please my friend, there is help for you, your life is a precious life that God blessed you with and He will continue to bless you and direct you to the right doctor that will help you.
I am praying Psalm 91 for you…please read and pray Psalm 91 over your life. Try to hook up with a Bible believing church near you, they may have an addiction program that will welcome you in and help you. Please do not go back to using! Not only have you saved your life by making the decision to stop using and going on suboxone, but always remember the stuff being sold on the streets is pure poison made with cheap toxic chemicals and Fentanyl that will kill you.
Please my friend, search for the right doctor, they are out there and will help you. You are in my prayers. God will never let you down, God is the Great Pyschian and will direct you to a compassionate, caring doctor. While I have no problem with its use in additiction on principle, I find it frustrating and unfair that this is the attitude for treating a chronic illness like addiction, but not for those with the chronic illness of chronic pain.
As a result, chronic pain patients have been largely left to suffer, to lose function and independence, or commit suicide. Because of the propaganda surrounding opioids, chronic pain patients are being overwhelmingly harmed. We are at a 20 year low in prescribing them. Because prescription opioids were never the problem. Addiction rates have remained steady for decades. There is no opioid crisis. There is an overdose crisis — caused by illicit fentanyl added to street drugs.
If bupe will help prevent those deaths, fine. Forced tapers, cut offs, and firing pain patients is not the answer. And I do have concerns. Yet they appear to be pushing Suboxone and bupe just as hard as oxycontin ever was, not always being entirely honest about the hard withdrawals or side effects.
This is not an exaggeration. It is also complex, convoluted and designed to be that way. Check civil asset forfeiture and administrative law. Books have been written on the criminalization of medicine. They are not an exaggeration.
In this environment, virtually all physicians will opt to protect themselves. It is Orwellian, Kafkaesque. Without exaggeration. Why, you may ask. P, describing the utter failure of the DEA at their original charge. DEA also dictates manufacturing quotas. They also seriously misinform, mostly through media hysteria carefully crafted. These meds have been around for 3, years because they work.
And without long term harm to organ systems. You can be brain dead from an overdose of otherwise life-saving insulin also. I completely, absolutely agree! When I got off methadone, I went through three plus months of full blown withdrawals.
Post Acute Withdrawal, my butt. I went to a place in Florida that detoxed me off of something like mgs of methadone per day, that I got from a methadone clinic. This detox center did it in three weeks and I found out later, their methods are illegal.
They told me I would walk out of there feeling great, then gave me a small dose of buprenorphine before I left for the airport and a pamphlet about PAWS.
I had no idea what was going to happen to me afterward and they never would return my calls. But, I was doing great after those horrible withdrawals went away. I believe I did great because of how much I suffered. But, only two months past those horrible months, I had horrible abdominal pain, knew I needed surgery, and it took a month to find someone to do the surgery. So, I thought I could easily detox like I had done many times when I was younger.
I only ever took prescription medication for pain from a car accident. But, after detoxing, I had major cravings for the first time. So, I went to a Kaiser buprenorphine clinic. Sorry if that went a bit off topic. But, when I did have the pain from the accident, I was labeled by most doctors as drug seeking. Yeah, I was seeking medication to not be in so much pain and looking for a doctor who cared she believed me.
I just ended up dependent past the point of when the pain went away, years later. It took me many doctors before I finally found the right buprenorphine doctor for me. If you saw me, you never would know. Anyway, it took me many pharmacies before I found one I was comfortable with, who treated me like a person and did not judge me for the medication I take. Also, my doctor is constantly going to addiction conferences and keeping up to date on it.
Would they give their own personal cell phone number to their patients like a lot of addiction management doctors do? I highly doubt it. I was actually diagnosed with an endorphin deficiency, back in Do people only have serotonin issues?
Is that the only chemical in the brain that can have too much or too little? There are many other chemicals, obviously, and like serotonin, people can have different chemical imbalances. I wish I could go back in time to get my doctorate and do my thesis on endorphin deficiencies and addiction. I did grow up in a family in the medical field. But, since the time I became stable on methadone, it was shocking how all of those symptoms disappeared almost completely.
Some come back briefly but never have any come back full force. And there is a euphoria you feel for the first years, depending on your body. Sub can be used properly to help addicts. The problem lies after you no longer need it physically. It does help with pain in my experience. My problem is being on it for too long. Eventually though it does leave you a shell of the person you were. It takes away all the good and happy feelings you normally have.
Excitement for things dissipates. You need to talk to a therapist regularly to sort out your demons and get back on track. I am just giving you my 2 cents on this subject. Best of luck to you all. The problem is no one talking about the reciprocated withdrawals that come along with it. This is the worst type of withdrawal you will ever want to go through in your life because anything and everything on your receptors is ripped off all at once and you go through the worst time of your life.
The only thing you can do is go back out in the streets and buy more until to push out the Subutex, Suboxone, methadone or whatever else they have now. Nor is there much research suggesting there is not any. I have been on subutex consistently since , and have not used since. I was pregnant then and couldnt withdraw from heroin cold turkey. For the first few years i saw no issue at all remaining on subutex, why would i?
My son is now 5, me and his father both got sober and stayed, we always busted our asses from nothing to survive and take care of our son with much help in the beginning that we are eternally grateful for we live almost like productive citizens of society. While i stayed home to care for our son, his dad started from scratch working jobs that went no where and paid peanuts. After 3 years, he did get lucky lucky only bc he had no drivers license still and is a convicted felon from a decade ago because his work ethic is apparent and he will out work a most men, even younger than him.
We already have his Year To Date income at k this year. I know that is not a super high paying job in this day in age, but from where we started 5 years ago when i was pregnant? I absolutely contribute some of our success to the fact we were on subutex and could function without the desire to ever test those waters again.
Its never even a thought or option to us, we know we would lose our son and be homeless, in jail, if not dead. Here is where the catch comes though.. Followed by quite a few more ailments over the years that still have every doctor scratching their head and me with no answers.
Its sad and even sadder for my son who watches his mom pass out in less than a minute flat if i sit down at any point of the day. I miss getting my son to preschool and doctor appointments at times because i sleep through them.
My legs stayed swelled for a whole year 2 years ago, i randomly drop 20 lbs with no change in diet or exercise, more recently my face will swell. Sometimes embarrassingly huge. I never would of thought maybe the subutex was causing some or all of these things until i spoke to my fiances cousin, she said it was so strange she was the same way years ago when she was on subutex and slept forever until she got off of it and has been fine since.
After hearing that i began researching anything i could online and found a few things that tell me it possibly could be the case. As well as 2 different type doctors recently suggesting it could be as well, but we wont know until i obviously arent taking them any longer. I am weening now and am at 1 and a quarter subutex a day. So the point i am trying to make is what are these prescription drugs long term affects? Do the doctors or anyone else even have enough research or studies to know?
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