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Can I just ask my dr for Buprenorphine?

opiatekrzy said:
physicians can prescribe Subutex as it's a "pain management drug", and give it to you off-label to combat opiate dependnecy pending ur on a waiting list for methadone or suboxone, a physician CANNOT RX SUBOXONE unless they are certified. Suboxone is a drug for opioid dependency because it has naloxone in it, subutex has no naloxone in it so its a pain management drug in the eyes of the FDA, suboxone is for addiction only because naloxone is in it. any physician can give out subutex...my primary once gave me a script for methadone 10mg to take 3x(how nieve to give a heroin addict a script for 90 methadones to take home, i was happy tho until he got paranoid after my 2nd script and said he cannot be a frequent prescriber to an addict as me, as i was on the waiting list for suboxone, and methadone is also known as a pain management drug&opioid addiction.
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Uhh, how is Subutex a pain management drug? I've just come out of detox and all the opiate users were on Subutex to control withdrawals, nothing to do with pain. You're putting it in the category of drugs like Morphine and Oxycodone which it simply isn't.
 
Bupe is used for pain as well as to treat dependance, and there are formulations of it designed specifically for this purpose (namely, the patches).
 
^ Well, you asked how it was a pain management drug. To be fair though, in Australia buprenorphine is only listed on the PBS as tablets for treatment of opioid dependence and their use for pain is rare and usually only the patches (non-PBS). In America and Europe it is more common to find people on the tablets for pain relief.
 
Considering you're only taking codeine with very occasional oxy use, you should be able to get off quite easily. Just lower your codeine dose by 50mg each time until you're under 100mg. You should be able to quit cold turkey then. - This is what your doctor will probably tell you, as he'd only prescribe it to help wean you off..
 
Mr Blonde said:
^ Well, you asked how it was a pain management drug. To be fair though, in Australia buprenorphine is only listed on the PBS as tablets for treatment of opioid dependence and their use for pain is rare and usually only the patches (non-PBS). In America and Europe it is more common to find people on the tablets for pain relief.
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200 mcg Buprenorphine is often used for pain in places like Thailand and some European countries, though uncommon here. Just as Dihydrocodeine (our beloved Rikodeine) is used for maintenance and pain relief in other countries, though mostly as anti-tussive here.
 
I couldn't give 2 shits about other countries use of Bupe, i was talking about Australia.
 
SoWhat! said:
I couldn't give 2 shits about other countries use of Bupe, i was talking about Australia.
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pretty shit attitude you have there mate...
hopefully you don't read some information posted incorrectly by someone who didn't give '2' shits about what they were posting either.
 
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