A very long article in the New York Times this morning examines both the benefits and considerable adverse consequences of using buprenorphine to treat opiate addiction. The piece points out that although many people have not heard of buprenorphine, its $1.55 billion in U.S. sales last year topped even the figures for Viagra. And with the […]

By Amy Orciari Herman Buprenorphine (Suboxone, Subutex), once hailed as a “holy grail” in addiction medicine, “has become both medication and dope: a treatment with considerable successes and also failures, as well as a street and prison drug bedeviling local authorities,” … (Source: Physician’s First Watch current issue)

  The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman last week prompted a slew of articles about the related problems of prescription opioid abuse and heroin addiction. In the Washington Post, Joel Achenbach points out that despite the recent spike in deaths from heroin overdose, recent data indicated that “[p]rescription opioids are killing Americans at more than […]

Suboxone has become a popular medication to use in detox from alcohol and other opiate addictions.(PRWeb March 14, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11671625.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals) MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.