Suboxone Talk Zone
A recovering psychiatrist discusses opiate dependence and treatment options for addiction, including the use of buprenorphine or Suboxone. The blog includes questions and comments from patients struggling with addiction, and answers to their comments by Board Certified Psychiatrist. Jeffrey T Junig MD PhD.
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Jan 28, 12 03:23PMAn Article by Mike Berens and Ken Armstrong, Seattle Times, discusses some of the problems with using methadone as a first-line treatment for pain: When it comes to battling pain, Washington health of ficials...
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Jan 22, 12 10:35AMWow. I just read an email about a story that I was vaguely aware of– about a doctor in Kansas and his wife, who were together linked to scores of overdose deaths. But that is just the beginning. The...
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Jan 02, 12 12:02PMBelow is an e-mail that I changed just enough to hide the person’s identity. Every week, I receive messages that describe similar situations. My husband has struggled GREATLY with substanc e...
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Dec 20, 11 05:33PMI was stunned to see this story about the town of Brattleboro, a town in Vermont with a name famous for the rats that grew up there. As an aside, my PhD thesis involved working with vasopressin recept ors...
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Dec 18, 11 03:43PMA recent experience with a patient helped me realize some of the dramatic differences in the treatment of opioid dependence, in an era of buprenorphine. I drug-test patients who are treated with bupre norphine...
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Nov 21, 11 07:37PMThere are ongoing efforts to eliminate the cap on treating people for opioid dependence with buprenorphine or Suboxone. I don’t know what the odds of success are, but the efforts woul d...
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Nov 21, 11 07:37PMThere are ongoing efforts to eliminate the cap on treating people for opioid dependence with buprenorphine or Suboxone. I don’t know what the odds of success are, but the efforts woul d...
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Nov 12, 11 10:54AMA Reader Writes: Message: The State of XXXXXX prescription price list noted Target Pharmacy as the cheapest for Suboxone at $6.99/Suboxone pill, 8mg-2mg, qty. 30. So I started getting my prescriptions filled...
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Nov 12, 11 10:54AMA Reader Writes: Message: The State of XXXXXX prescription price list noted Target Pharmacy as the cheapest for Suboxone at $6.99/Suboxone pill, 8mg-2mg, qty. 30. So I started getting my prescriptions filled...
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Nov 09, 11 06:40PMA recent message from a reader: What would be the ideal care-plan for the pt taking 24mg/dayof Subutex who is going in for c section? I would like to show the response tomy OB, so if there is any way, please...
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