How Buprenorphine And Suboxone Can Be Both An Addiction Cure And A Deadly Recreational Drug

Opiates are chemical substances that attach to the brain's opioid receptors, when ingested, causing a rush (from increased dopamine production) and pain-numbing. Opiate addiction develops from prolonged intake of opiates, whether from prescription medication (morphine, oxycodone, buprenorphine compounds, and Xanax among other painkillers) or recreational drugs. Opiate addicts have distorted brain cells, abnormal cognitive processes, and abnormal body functions from the use of opiates. However, this addiction can be treated by a gradual withdrawal of opiates, and treatment of withdrawal symptoms.

Buprenorphine and Suboxone as opiate addiction treatment medication

Buprenorphine is a synthetic opiate that is highly recommended over other narcotics as a painkiller and treatment medication of other opiates addictions. Suboxone, a compound of buprenorphine and naloxone, is more potent than other opiates; it readily attaches to the brain's opioids receptors and displaces other opioids. However, buprenorphine compounds (Suboxone and Subutex) have less intense effects on the body and the brain, and they last longer than effects of other opiates on the brain and the body. Suboxone, also called Suoxone, is used an opiate addiction treatment as naloxone reduces the adverse effects of buprenorphine further and prevents the full attachment of buprenorphine molecules onto the brain's opioids receptors. Using Suboxone to treat other opiates addiction is safe as it curbs opiate withdrawals while reversing the opiate dependence.

Buprenorphine and Suboxone as deadly recreational drugs

As aforementioned, Suboxone has similar effects as other opiates, and its prolonged use can built tolerance, increase dependence and create addiction. Suboxone is available in filmstrip and tablet form. The tablets should be ingested orally to slow the drug release into the bloodstream. The approval of Suboxone as an opiate addiction treatment medication saw more people that needed it than the available supplies of the drug. Approved Suboxone administrators started selling the drug, and opiate addicts, who lacked their first-choice opiate, learnt that they could get similar effects from Suboxone. Suboxone abusers dissolve the drug and inject it into their bloodstreams, or they crash the tablets and inhale the powder, delivering massive quantities of the drug into the bloodstream and the brain. A Suboxone overdose, defined as the presence of toxic levels of Suboxone in the blood, can cause heart attack among other adverse effects that can lead to permanent brain and body damage or death.

Suboxone is a compound of naloxone and buprenorphine, and it is used for the safe treatment of opiate addiction and pain-numbing. Abuse of buprenorphine, by people who seek the rush and pain-numbing that opiates give, can result in an overdose. Follow us for more information and resources on drug abuse and treatment.