Good reading on Bupe

[voodoobudah]

http://www.naabt.org/education/pharmacoloy_of_buprenorphine.cfm

[voodoobudah]

Check out #12 on this page about depression: http://naabt.org/buprenorphine_overview.cfm

[voodoobudah]

Read #10 here about the diversion to the street of buprenorphine : http://naabt.org/education/buprenorphine_treatment.cfm I have suspected this for a while and here it is in Black and White.

[voodoobudah]

More good info here: http://www.helpmegetoffdrugs.com/

[Zoop]

Check out #12 on this page about depression: http://naabt.org/buprenorphine_overview.cfm

I am going to read this stuff when I get to work, but right now I can DEFINITELY attest to bupe's antidepressant efficacy. Before, I have already read something about bupe and antidepressant activity, and I really believe that it's true.

The street diversion thing puzzles me a bit. I think the only people who could really get off on buprenorphine are totally opiate-naive folks. I am on 16mg/day and I barely feel any opiate buzzy feeling when I take it, which is almost always by snorting it (I get subutex b/c the suboxone tastes totally awful to me, causes heartburn and as a matter of fact, doesn't have much of an effect on me - o.k. the last one may have been exaggerated a bit to the ol' doc, but the first two are true!).

While we're on the subject, I have been wanting to get some opiophile people's opinions on this:

I predict, within the next 2 or 3 years, we are going to have a couple/few more drugs on the market for doctor's office treatment/maintenance of opiate addiction. The D.A.T.A. (Drug Abuse Treatment Act) of 2000 authorized by law the use of schedule III, IV and V controlled substances for this purpose. It is only a matter of time before some other companies besides Reckitt-Benckiser (who makes suboxone and subutex) to get into this profitable game.

I can't wait to see what else is coming. Eventually, also, I am confident that schedule II controllled substances will be permitted for doctor's office maintenance treatment (e.g., methadone, LAAM)-even though that's not part of the initial legislation. It's just too profitable and there is such a huge shortage of slots at methadone clinics for the addict population. It is much much cheaper to maintain addicts (and let THEM pay for it) than to put them all behind bars for simple possession.

What do y'all think?

[voodoobudah]

Zoop ,if you reread the street diversion thing again you will see that what you say is actually in agreement with what the author(s) states.In other words:If it is diverted to the streets -it will be used as intended (by the man). People that either can't or won't visit a doc,for whatever reason,will use it for maintenance or to jump off a nasty habit.That is the way I read it.