Missing the Point of Buprenorphine Treatment

A forum reader wrote about concerns over a partner on buprenorphine.  Her concerns pointed out a common misperception about the goals of treatment of opioid use disorder using buprenorphine, or using methadone for that matter. Her question, amended for privacy: I married the love of my life.  He is still he love of my life but has been an addict for 15 of them. Our children have been greatly affected by his addiction.  He made promise after promise that he was clean, and I dove back in with complete faith time after time only to get burned. His addiction started with recreational pills increasing over time, but now he is abusing Suboxone.   He was taking up to 12 mg depending on the day, but no pain pills for the last year. I suggested a Suboxone doctor and a plan to get off, and my husband called one and was able to get right in. At the visit the doctor did a half ass intake and called in a prescription for an 8 mg tab for induction.   After induction they called in prescription for 20 mg/day.   My husband stayed with 4 mg once a day and was “blah” in the afternoon and irritable but not physically sick.  On his next visit to the doctor he was proud, but when he told the doctor he had only take 4mg in the mornings she got angry. She told him she wouldn’t see him anymore if that’s what he was going to do. He asked how long he would be on it and she wouldn’t give any kind of answer. I asked again before we left and she snapped at me. I se...
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