Buprenorphine, Not Subbies

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 used to the growth of abstinence-based treatment programs, even as relapse rates and deaths continued to rise.  It isn’t all bad news; I enjoyed the past couple meetings of AATOD, where people openly spoke about medication-assisted treatments without hushed voices.  I feel like I’m the conservative one at those meetings! I don’t remember where I heard first – maybe in an interview with some reporter about addiction- that I was an ‘influencer’ with buprenorphine.  The comment surprised me, because from here I don’t see the influence.  My supposed influence is from this blog, although I may have changed a couple of minds in my part of my home state among my patients, who had to sit across from me and hear me talk. For an ‘influencer’ I’m not very happy about how many buprenorphine-related things have gone over the years.  I still see the same reckless spending of resources, for example. A couple million people in the US abuse opioids, and only a fraction receive treatment. Those are big things, and anyone reading my blog knows all the big things.  I want to write about the little things.Â...
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