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01/22/2022

Even though Suboxone has been approved for maintenance treatment, staying on the medication long-term after being stabilized defeats the purpose of individual sobriety.

01/22/2022

I’ve seen what long-term Suboxone does. People come in with endocrine problems – thyroid dysfunction, low testosterone… hair loss – tooth loss with Suboxone. There’s no way your brain chemistry can heal while on buprenorphine. You’re continuing to give someone a narcotic.”

~ Dr. Steven Scanlan, a psychiatrist/addiction specialist who is the Medical Director of Palm Beach Outpatient Detox

01/22/2022

The consensus among most professionals and recovering addicts is that “clean”, when used in the context of recovery, means drug-free. Having all mood-altering substances out of our systems is necessary before the changes that addiction creates in our brains can be repaired. As long as drugs that modify the reward system (which includes all recreational drugs) are in our bodies, repair and normalization cannot begin. When we are on Suboxone or methadone maintenance, we are still addicted¹, and our brains are essentially in the same condition as when we were actively using other opioid drugs. It would seem to be pushing things to call us clean.
That is not to say that there are no benefits to drug maintenance programs. To the extent that they allow people to cease other drug use and begin to take care of themselves and fulfill their responsibilities, they have some validity. The problem is that the addiction remains in full force, and relapse — whether to other drugs or simply recreational doses of the maintenance drugs — is only a hair’s breadth away. Adherence to maintenance programs rests squarely on our willingness to continue to follow them. That is an extremely dangerous place for an addict to be.If you don’t think we remain addicted on maintenance doses of opioid substitutes, just try quitting. Both Suboxone (when used for long periods) and methadone have withdrawal syndromes that are worse than the drugs for which they’re being substituted.
In other words... You’re still not clean... Stop using

02/18/2021

How Addiction Develops
Some people who abuse Suboxone claim that they were never told that the drug could be addictive. You might have been told that the drug could help you with your addiction, but you weren’t told exactly how the drug worked. If you fall into this camp, you might have found that you were slowly drawn to taking larger and larger doses of Suboxone. The compulsion might have developed slowly, at a chemical level, and you might not have been aware of that process. In other words, the drug might have operated on your op**te and opioid receptors, triggering compulsive use you weren’t quite aware of or in control of.

02/23/2020

I’ve seen what long-term Suboxone does. People come in with endocrine problems – thyroid dysfunction, low testosterone… hair loss – tooth loss with Suboxone. There’s no way your brain chemistry can heal while on buprenorphine. You’re continuing to give someone a narcotic.”

~ Dr. Steven Scanlan, psychiatrist/addiction specialist .

02/20/2020

Can people get off Suboxone without bad withdrawal?

Well, since everybody's different, possibly. For me. It was/is HELL!!

When I was put on Suboxone. I was finally free of pain meds. None that I ever abused. They just kept giving me larger dosages and more powerful pain meds.

Well, obviously they did that because my body built tolerance. I didn't know it at the time. But they should have!

So I made the decision to go of all pain meds altogether.

I succeeded in coming off of some pretty heavy stuff. I saved the weakest one to get off last.

I could not for the life of me wean off it. I got off prescribed pain killers that were much more powerful than this last one. I couldn't do it. I went to Rehab and was told by the Addictionologist Dr. there that the "last one is ALWAYS the most difficult to stop." Didn't matter if it was the weakest one.

Well, I was put on Suboxone.

I was ready to go off (in my mind) after 10 days. I felt great and I knew not too much had built up into my System.

Again, falsely informed by the Dr's I trusted, I was told I had to stay on it for a minimum of 6 month to a year as my brain chemistry had changed with all the pain meds that I was prescribed (took as prescribed) and that if I didn't stick it out on the Suboxone I would find myself back into the same position.

I was told "you can't get addicted" "if you do it's psychological, not physical and it won't be severe at all." Lies!!!!

I should have known better than to listen to the so called Dr's, Addictionologists and "Experts".

Though I've never taken more than 2 mg of Suboxone, I can't get off of it. I've been weaning now for almost 3 years. (Mind you most are prescribed 16 mg a day)!

This is a wonder drug for those whose lives were lost to the absolute nightmare of Addiction. But at the time I went on it I don't think Dr's knew fully it's highly addictive properties.

It is NOT as easy to come off it as they say, it is not just "psychological' as I was told, and the withdrawals are NOT easy!!!!!

I'm going thru serious HELL trying to get off the 2mg of Sub I am taking. I've been trying for for too long. I have to be weaned, problem is, when it gets down to a certain point, it becomes almost impossible, especially if you suffer from depression.

I once had a truthful Dr. tell me in the ER that once a person starts Suboxone it needs to be taken for life as it is not easy to come off and the withdrawals are Hell.

I don't know if it is so difficult for me because I do suffer from depression (which by the way, better than any Anti-Depressant out there for Depression so that's the only plus side for me)! Or if most, if not all, have this problem.

Would love to hear from others.