Suboxone is one of the gravest exploitations of the patent system that I have ever seen pharma pull off. Total garbage useless drug combo that somehow was take hook line and sinker by the current medical community…at the expense of tens of thousands of lives and finances destroyed by people being forced to take suboxone at huge brand name prices vs dirt cheap subutex
There was a big thread years ago on the discussions of IVing suboxone vs bupe
The conclusion was that the naloxone does almost nothing.
Imo the combination with naloxone was simply evergreening (extending patent life) of the expired buprenorohine.
Basically you create a combination of two drugs that can no longer be patented…the you patent the combo based off some junk, animal, or in vitro science that has no real world result.
Then you convince clueless MDs that said combination is better than the off patent generics like subutex.
Then you profit.
It’s done constantly by pharma in all
Areas of drug development
The only good thing to come of suboxone was the strip formulation that is extremely easy to smuggle hide and conceal vs a pill. But they didn’t need to make a combo with naloxone to do that…could’ve done it with plain bupe.
What’s your motivation for getting rid of this useless naloxone anyways?