StoneHappyMonday
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- May 10, 2001
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Please don't take this the wrong way but do you have any figures or anything else to support that? It's just that I've been in and around opiates/opioids and the assorted medical responses to them my whole adult life (20 years since I first spoke to my GP about it) and have never seen or heard anything like that. Quite the opposite. I'm not for one moment trying to diminish or belittle your struggle with addiction - nor anybody else's - cos I know addiction and it doesn't care what you're addicted to as long as you are addicted. It's just that using bupe to deal with a codeine addiction really is using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. It seems to me that yourself and your friend are actually the exceptions not the rule and I wouldn't really want people to get the idea that this is standard practice when it's not - and it isn't as far as I can tell and I suspect I would have heard of at least one other person over the years I've been in treatment. I haven't though and nobody else seems to either which is probably why you've gotten some grief over in the Suboxone forum - it's just that it really does seem like a very strange decision purely as there seems to be no precedent for it.
Once again. I am not saying anything about your addiction and the troubles it has caused you. Addiction is addiction and each case needs to be taken on its own merits - one size does not fit all. But it would be nice if you could point me (and any others with an interest) in the direction of something to back up the claim that Suboxone is being used to treat "a lot of codeine addicts" rather than just a handful of exceptional cases. My main concern would be that perhaps a lurker with a codeine problem doesn't want to go to their doctor so buys themselves some Suboxone off the net and ODs as there is such a vast difference in potency. You seem to be getting on well with it and if it's helping you that's great, but bupe is a strong opioid and I don't think people should get the idea that it is standard practice to use it for codeine aedictions.
Intensely insulting post from start to finish. Reported. 8(
(If you google this shit you get the impression this is common in the States...as all the web pages are American. But you probably know this. Now get back on the naughty step with Dan)