Honestly, yeah, I have heard of many sub doctors beginning induction right then and there. From what my friends have told me, the doctors were told by R&B that this is when to use Subutex (buprenorphine mono agent), because they were still misleading doctors, the FDA, everyone, educating doctors that "the truth was that the naloxone was what induced precipitated withdrawals, but R&B knew all along that precipitated withdrawals are a result of buprenorphine itself, due to it having a higher binding affinity than most other competing commonly abused full-agonists, but R&B made millions more dollars on their investment by remaining silent and misleading doctors by telling them naloxone actively prevents misuse, when it doesn't."
So I doubt your doctors sadistic, just blatantly unaware about the drugs he's prescribing and how they work in the real world vs. how they work on paper and or via the Suboxone Powerpoint Presentation "qualification course" doctors must do to become authorized suboxone doctors.
I'm going to close this, since we can't speculate further.