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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Feb 01, 10 05:42PMI will share some thoughts that I left at a discussion at a ‘linked in’ group about addiction. I was responding to someone who was equating addiction and physical dependence in a baby born to an opiate...
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Jan 31, 10 11:33AMA member at the buprenorphine forum wrote about his own health issues including hormonal imbalances, prompting me to do a literature search on buprenorphine and testosterone. I found a couple in teresting...
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Jan 29, 10 05:58PMI will introduce this topic by typing my response to a reader who asked whether buprenorphine, the active ingredient in Suboxone, shows up in urine drug tests. More specifically he asked whether com panies...
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Dec 27, 09 08:17PMI’ve been posting more lately, but I’m hoping to slow down by the end of the holidays to let everyone catch up. I’ve also mentioned ‘my book’ several times in the pas t...
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Dec 25, 09 08:56PMI frequently point out the lack of outrage over the epidemic of opiate dependence and the consequence of that epidemic. I live in ‘middle America,’ and sometimes it seems that everyone I know...
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Dec 23, 09 10:27PMHad to mention that I heard that Steve Tyler went in for rehab for ‘pain pill addiction’ related to falling off a stage or some other injury… Wish I had that ‘falling off the stage...
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Dec 23, 09 05:30PMA note of follow up: According to TMZ, a variety of medications were found in Brittany Murphy’s apartment under her name and under the name of her husband and mother. Of course it is possibl e...
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Dec 21, 09 12:17PMI have no idea what killed Brittany Murphy. The press are reporting that she had a ‘heart attack’ at age 32, not fully understanding the difference between a ’heart attack’ 8211...
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Dec 17, 09 08:54PMA quickie question from a youtube viewer: hiya– Wondering if you could tell me if this is a good idea. I’m almost at the end of my taper from methadone from having addiction to oxyco ntin...
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Dec 16, 09 08:58PMReckitt-Benckiser, the first (but surely not last) manufacturer of orally dissolvable buprenorphine sold under the brand names Suboxone and Subutex, has been aggressively pushing doctors to refer addi cts...
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