Why Did They Add Naloxone?
Naloxone blocks excess buprenorphine effects. It is an opiate antagonist — it prevents opioid effects. It has been added to prevent overdose effects and to prevent intravenous abuse of buprenorphine. Is This Experimental or is Suboxone FDA Approved? Subutex and Suboxone have been studied in thousands of pateints. I have the impression that at least 2,000 patients were researched before the medication had FDA approval in 2002. If each doctor who is allowed to prescribe it has prescribed it for five pateints, that is 6500 times 5 or 32,500 patients. We are allowed to treat 30 patients at a time with our special Suboxone DEA certificate, and some want this number increased. Am I Just Going to Take Another Addictive Medication? I do not believe so. First, this medication has an opioid, buprenorphine, with unique properties that appear to make it less addictive. Also, Suboxone is a schedule III medication under the Controlled Substances Act, so it is considered to have less risk for causin
