I've been on Suboxone 7 years now.
And while I tend to speak negatively about buprenorphine...
I'd say it's better than any SSNRI for depression (for me).
Although it is theorized that high doses long term of buprenorphine may actually start to block dopamine. This in return creates cravings and relapse since you start to feel like shit all the time.
The United States of America is currently in an opioid epidemic. Heroin remains the most lethal opioid option with its death rate increasing by over 500% in the last decade. The rewarding and reinforcing effects of heroin are thought to be mediated ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Opiate addiction is associated with many adverse health and social harms, fatal overdose, infectious disease transmission, elevated health care costs, public disorder, and crime. Although community-based addiction treatment programs continue to reduce the harms of opiate addiction with narcotic...
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Honestly, I use to think hydrocodone was even better than buprenorphine. But I'd say hydrocodone is garbage in comparison to the effects possible with buprenorphine.