I have been on Suboxone for over a year now for a somewhat moderate prescription opiate addiction. Honestly, Suboxone in my opinion is only good for the extreme withdrawal symptoms of the initial dope kick. Now, a year and a half later I find myself worse off than I was before I went into rehab and got prescribed the Suboxone. Insurance won't cover it, it costs me $25 per day just to avoid severe withdrawals so essentially I am no different than any run of the mill junky. Before, I was using between 1.5 and 3 Oxycontin 80mg tablets per day. I was taking them orally, in halves and taking them throughout 10 hour workdays in a corporate environment in the financial industry. It just got to be a bit too expensive. Thus, I went to rehab after being told over and over again that self medicating with Oxycontin is no solution to any problems and that I would eventually die from it or build an extreme tolerance (I never needed to increase my oral dosage of the Oxycontin and 1.5-3 per day was ALWAYS enough for me to feel great and be productive.) Doctors told me otherwise and as a result now I have spent $10,000 on a bullshit rehab facility and thousands and thousands of dollars going to and from CVS pharmacy to buy my couple of suboxones to make it through the day. Can somebody tell me how this is ANY better than being addicted to the Oxycontin in the first place? The only difference I see is that at least with the Oxycontin I was getting a euphoria and felt great now all I feel is BLAH all day every day and the Suboxone does nothing except stop me from getting extremely dopesick from withdrawal. THE ONLY OTHER difference is that now countless doctors, insurance companies, co-pays, etc etc and the MEDICAL FIELD is lining their pockets off keeping me addicted. Granted, you could say the medical field was benefitting from my addiction to Oxycontin as well I suppose but this whole Suboxone things seems pretty god damned premeditated. Suboxone is good for short term detox, maybe a month or two AT THE VERY MOST IN THE MOST EXTREME OF CASES. Anything past that and the medical industry is simply putting invisible handcuffs on your mind and ensuring that they have job security from now until forever as your number one and always needed DOPE DEALER.
To say this makes me sick would be a massive understatement.