Suboxone Side Effects?
I’ve received questions over the years from people claiming a range of symptoms from Suboxone or buprenorphine, from back or muscle pain to fatigue, depression, or irritability. I didn’t invent Suboxone, so I don’t take it personally when people blame commonly-occurring symptoms on the drug. But I get bored by the non-scientific thinking behind such claims— that since they started buprenorphine at some point in the past ten years, every symptom or illness that comes along must somehow be related to buprenorphine. No matter, apparently, that people who DIDN’T start buprenorphine often develop the same symptoms...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - March 2, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: pharmacology Research side effects Suboxone tolerance treatment buprenorphine side effects depression on suboxone irritability from suboxone mu receptor tolerance Source Type: blogs

Vivitrol versus Buprenorphine, Video QA
I’ve been doing question and answer sessions at SuboxForum for a few weeks now.  This week included a number of questions about Vivitrol, a monthly injectable form of the opioid blocker naltrexone.  I decided to share the video below.  If you want to see the original questions, go to www.suboxforum.com , the ‘QA’ section.   (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - February 23, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Buprenorphine pharmacology Suboxone treatment is vivitrol better than suboxone naltrexone risks of vivitrol Source Type: blogs

Calling All Buprenorphine/Suboxone Doctors
Help!  I am hoping to create a list of people who have a real understanding of buprenorphine, in an attempt to reduce the stigma associated with buprenorphine and addiction.   I’m not ready to take my efforts public, so I need to be a bit cryptic at this point.  I ask that buprenorphine-certified physicians, or people with doctorates in the field of neurscience, neurochemistry, or psychology, send me an email, and I will reply with more details. Rest assured that I am NOT looking to create a mailing list, and I will not be asking for any personal information.  I am looking for help with a narrow, specific issue....
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - February 22, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Buprenorphine Public policy buprenorphine certified doctor suboxone doctor Source Type: blogs

Suboxone Film Cutting Guide
Sorry about the last post…  but I was so excited by stumbling across that bird that I had to share it with somebody! Something else I recently stumbled across is the ‘Suboxone Film cutting guide’, a better mousetrap for people wishing to taper off buprenorphine.  Regular readers know that my general advice to people addicted […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - February 18, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Suboxone Suboxone Forum cutting suboxone film suboxone film cutting guide tapering buprenorphine Source Type: blogs

Does Suboxone Stop Working Over Time?
I’m taking a few moments before the New Year to answer a question I received by email.  For reader WisdomQuest in the comments section– NO.  For others, I’d like to wish you all a Happy New Year, and thank you for stopping by SuboxoneTalkZone now and then. Buprenorphine is relatively unique among opioids in having… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - January 1, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Buprenorphine pharmacology receptor actions tolerance buprenorphine and opioid tolerance buprenorphine ceiling effect does suboxone stop working how long can I take suboxone Source Type: blogs

Toward Understanding Ibogaine
Paul Dessauer, Outreach Coordinator at WASUA, the Western Australian Substance Users’ Association, often adds insight to issues that come up on my blog.  He shared a few comments in response to my post about ibogaine, and at my request gave permission to post his remarks here. His comments include a summary of the receptor actions… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 31, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: pharmacology receptor actions Research ibogaine effects ibogaine for opioid dependence ibogaine treatment safety of ibogaine Source Type: blogs

Opioid Dependence Treatment with Ibogaine
I would have posted this sooner, but I held back to avoid ruining a reader’s Showtime Homeland experience.    Spoiler Alert…  Viewers of Homeland should be aware that reading the following will take away some of the surprise in Season 3, episode 9 (aired 11.24.2013). I’ve written about ibogaine before, but I’ve assumed that the reported effectiveness… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 29, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Pharma treatment help for addiction ibogaine addiction ibogaine treatment natural addiction treatments opioid dependence Source Type: blogs

Suboxone Zona de Charla en Español
Con perdón , estoy confiando en el traductor de Google para llegar a una versión española precisa de mis comentarios sobre la adicción a los opioides y Suboxone ( buprenorfina) . Miro a la distribución de los lectores de mi blog, y aunque tengo lectores en Egipto, Jordania , Suecia, Francia y Alemania , que… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 28, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Suboxone buprenorfina embarazada en suboxone la abstinencia de opiáceos la adicción la adicción a la heroína la dependencia de opiáceos Source Type: blogs

Health Privacy at the Pharmacy
In the middle of an already-hectic schedule, my office received a call from a pharmacist at Roundy’s Pharmacy, Sheboygan WI saying that he couldn’t fill a script for oxycodone without the patient’s ICD-9 number.  The ICD-9 is soon to be replaced by ICD-10, a system that applies numbers to every medical illness under the sun. … (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 21, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Costs Legal Public policy healthcare privacy hipaa icd10 icd9 code opioids oxycodone pain Source Type: blogs

How and When to Stop Buprenorphine or Suboxone
People know my bias—that many people should think of buprenorphine as a chronic, perhaps life-long treatment for a chronic, life-long disease.  That said, I am aware of how many people out there are convinced that they need to be ‘off everything,’ no matter the misery opioids have caused in their lives.  I don’t get it;… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 16, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Tapering buprenorphine taper how to stop suboxone should I stop suboxone when to stop buprenorphine Source Type: blogs

Celebrities with Addictions
  I came across a list of celebrities with known histories of addiction on a different web site.  Sharing the list does not disclose private information or betray confidences (believe it or not, I haven’t been invited to the Academy Awards even once!).  I don’t share the names to ‘shame’ anyone.  I’m sharing it because I was… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 14, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction addicted celebrities famous people with addiction how common is addiction Source Type: blogs

Buprenorphine Odds and Ends
Bummer…. I recently had an SEO expert review my blog and forum, wondering why my hundreds of pages about buprenorphine and Suboxone are a page or so further down the Google lists than a single-page web site offering rapid detox.  I learned that the theme I used for the blog, while fresh with features 6… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 5, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Pharma Buprenorphine buprenorphine regulations overdose death Suboxone zubsolv Source Type: blogs

Odds and Ends
Bummer…. I recently had an SEO expert review my blog and forum, wondering why my hundreds of pages about buprenorphine and Suboxone are a page or so further down the Google lists than a single-page web site offering rapid detox.  I learned that the theme I used for the blog, while fresh with features 6 […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 5, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Buprenorphine side effects Suboxone buprenorphine regulations overdose death zubsolv Source Type: blogs

Bangor to Maine: Too Much Suboxone Treatment!
As I read about the moratorium on buprenorphine treatment programs in Bangor, Maine, I thought about the scene from the movie Titanic where the people who found safety in lifeboats struggled to keep those in the water from climbing aboard. The Bangor city council recently voted to impose a moratorium on expanding buprenorphine treatment programs for… (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - November 27, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Public policy Bangor City Council Bangor moratorium heroin addiction methadone clinics new buprenorphine programs Suboxone treatment Source Type: blogs

Bangor to Maine: Not in My Lifeboat!
As I read about the moratorium on buprenorphine treatment programs in Bangor, Maine, I thought about the scene from the movie Titanic where the people who found safety in lifeboats struggled to keep those in the water from climbing aboard. The Bangor city council recently voted to impose a moratorium on expanding buprenorphine treatment programs for […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - November 27, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Methadone Public policy Suboxone Bangor City Council Bangor moratorium heroin addiction methadone clinics new buprenorphine programs Suboxone treatment Source Type: blogs