New Abuse/Diversion Section
Yes– I realize that I have two stories that aren’t completed. ADD, anyone? (actually I have some things to say about ADD– But I think I’ll limit myself to two unfinished posts at a time!) I Googled Suboxone and buprenorphine abuse and diversion today. I have been aware of the diversion problem for some time, […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - September 13, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Legal Research risks Suboxone treatment addiction treatment buprenorphine diversion drug dependence opioid addiction suboxone abuse Source Type: blogs
Suboxone is Flooding the Streets!
One reply to my last post said I go ‘on and on’ about things that could be said with fewer words. I asked the person to send me his/her version, and I hope he does—not to prove anything, but because I appreciate the chance to learn. He wrote that his problem is the opposite– that […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 31, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Legal Public policy Suboxone buprenorphine abuse buprenorphine certified illicit suboxone self-treatment Source Type: blogs
Unintended Consequences Part 35
I realize that I am halfway through a post called ‘Suboxone Abuse Part I’. This is poor form, but I am now going to get halfway through a second topic before finishing the first one. Sorry. I recently came across a problem relating to the new healthcare law. I was thinking about writing ‘How the […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 29, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Costs Public policy Suboxone treatment affordable care act buprenorphine certified prescriber health systems medicine lost leaders obamacare Source Type: blogs
Breaking Bad is Killing Me
A little dramatic, I guess. but have you ever seen anything so intense… so gripping…on a television set? Or at a movie, for that matter? I’ve loved the show for years. I almost pulled my youngest from her sophomore year of highschool a few years ago, when it appeared that she couldn’t catch up with […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 26, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Acute Pain Chronic pain other blogs Public policy arizona breaking bad hank jessie methamphetamine saul vengeance walt Source Type: blogs
Search About Suboxone
Discussions are divided into categories and cover a wide range of topics, including patients’ personal experiences during pregnancy and childbirth, surgery, and buprenorphine induction and withdrawal. We try to prevent discussions from degenerating into […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 13, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Education Suboxone Suboxone Forum buprenorphine and pregnancy how to stop buprenorphine Suboxone and surgery suboxone information suboxone risks Suboxone withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Taking Buprenorphine, Having Surgery
I will get to ‘Part II’, but today I talked with a patient about something that happens too often, that deserves to be pointed out. The person was in the ER with an injury that resulted in tib/fib francture. The ER doc provided no analgesia, in the ER or at discharge, telling the patient “you […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 12, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Acute Pain Buprenorphine Education pharmacology risks Suboxone Subutex surgery treatment buprenorphine and acute pain precipitated withdrawal surgery on Suboxone taking pain medication on Suboxone Source Type: blogs
Suboxone Abuse Pt I
We’ve all read articles about the epidemic of opioid dependence during the past ten years. We’ve heard the concern over pain medications being overly-prescribed by some physicians. Some of us older docs even remember the claims, by the Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation and other medical watchdogs, that physicians were undertreating pain and were in need […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 11, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Public policy Suboxone Subutex treatment cost of suboxone treatment how long to take buprenorphine opioid addiction treatment suboxone abuse suboxone doctors Source Type: blogs
New SuboxForum
After a series of fits and starts, the Forum is up and running. I first considered this move several years ago, and if I had known that I’d be around this long, I’d have done it long ago. I registered a number of domain names related to Suboxone and buprenorphine in 2006, when I first […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
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Patience Please!
The forum should be up and running by tomorrow– on Friday, Bluehost was down… and now the upgrade is in progress. Expect improved performance when everything is back up and running; I also expect glitches and frustrations, as those things always occur, no matter how much you try to prevent them…. Hopefully by tomorrow at this we’ll […] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - August 3, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Source Type: blogs
The Ibogaine Cure
Ibogaine, a drug long-rumored to treat opioid withdrawal, has become a hot topic for those taking buprenorphine. Ibogaine is a complex molecule that comes from a group of plants that are known, in West Central Africa, as Iboga. In native African culture the drug is used to induce psychedelic states that are part of certain rituals. [...] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - July 29, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine pharmacology receptor actions Research risks Suboxone treatment addiction treatment ibogaine ibogaine treatment centers laetrile opioid withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Free Medic Alert Card for Buprenorphine/Suboxone
As more and more people treat opioid dependence using buprenorphine, the odds become greater for interactions between hospital and emergency field workers and injured people who take buprenorphine. I have placed a link in the lower right panel of this blog, to a web site that generates free medical ID cards that warns emergency workers [...] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - July 26, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Acute Pain Buprenorphine Education Legal Public policy risks buprenorphine ID med alert medical id card medical ID tag paramedics and emts and suboxone suboxone tag Source Type: blogs
Return of the Suboxone Haters
I hear from the anti-buprenorphine people now and then, less than I used to. I also hear from fans of this blog’s early days, when I routinely lost my temper in response to those people. Their general line was that things on heroin weren’t all that bad, but now, on buprenorphine, things are miserable. Starting buprenorphine [...] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - July 23, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine recovery relapse Suboxone Subutex treatment inject subutex suboxone for heroin Suboxone withdrawal Source Type: blogs
The Pain Clinic: Your Money’s Worth?
Like most of you, I’m not thrilled with modern healthcare. I miss how things were twenty years ago, when I had a sense of ‘having a doctor’ who actually knew me, who had my best interests in mind. I remember my father, a defense attorney in a small town in Wisconsin, telling me about the [...] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - July 18, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Chronic pain Drug Testing Public policy Suboxone back pain pain clinic pain management pain pill addiction pain treatment Source Type: blogs
We’re Back (Again!)
Finally migrated, upgraded, trouble-shotted, and propagated…. looks like all of the sites are up and running on the new servers. Things are SUPPOSED to be faster, eventually… but apparently it takes some time for all of the i.p. addresses to be spread throughout the internet, in all corners of the world– so there may be a couple hiccups yet. [...] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - July 17, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Suboxone Forum Source Type: blogs
Suboxone Pain Treatment, Etc.
It has been a while– too long– since my last post. I’m trying to get back in the saddle, but in the meantime I encourage readers interested in Suboxone to read some of the posts from 5 or 6 years ago, when the arguments about buprenorphine and Suboxone were more heated. To that end, I [...] (Source: Suboxone Talk Zone)
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - July 4, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: J T Junig Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Chronic pain risks Suboxone Suboxone Forum tolerance Withdrawal buprenorpine chronic pain Suboxone opioid depedendence pain treatment Suboxone education Source Type: blogs
