Naloxone vs Suboxone
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| Consult your pharmacist. | This medication contains 2 medicines: buprenorphine and naloxone. It is used to treat narcotic (opioid) dependence/addiction. Buprenorphine belongs to a class of drugs called mixed narcotic agonist-antagonists. Buprenorphine helps prevent withdrawal symptoms caused by stopping other opiate-type narcotics. Naloxone is a narcotic antagonist that blocks the effect of narcotics and can cause severe narcotic withdrawal when injected. It has little effect when taken by mouth or dissolved under the tongue. It is combined with buprenorphine to prevent abuse and misuse (injection) of this medication. This combination medication is used as part of a complete treatment program for drug abuse (such as compliance monitoring, counseling, behavioral contract, lifestyle changes). | |||
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| Add Naloxone review this mededication should never ever ever be givin to anyone with the full understanding of its side effects at all. a person needs to be knocked out before taking this drug. i wish whom ever thought of this drug would have tried this them selfs and i know they would not have marketed it. no human nor animal or any living thing should mess with this drug at all. please BE CAREFUL OF THIS DRUG PLEASE, i take morphine for several conditions, 45mg 2x/day. have taken this amount for 2+ years. i was taken to the e.r and was given 2 doses of this treatment. it was aweful!!! i had pneumonia and my carbon monoxide level was high. the side affects i experienced were hallucinations, extreme feeling that i was on fire, then the feeling of being cold as ice, lost control of my bowels and bladder. i recommend that you find a different method of treatment. i truely thought i was dying, this treatment is hell and i wouldn't wish it on anyone!!! This drug should never be given to an individual without thir knowledge. The effects of this drug is very debilitating. I consider this action to be very serious. | Add Suboxone review HELLO, I HAVE BEEN ON SUBOXONE FOR SIX YEARS NOW. IT IS ADDICTIVE, U WILL GO THRU A LITTLE RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME IF U RUN OUT AND NOT SLEEP. ITS COSTING ME $10 A DAY FOR THE MEDS AND DR VISIT IS $150. I JUST NOW FOUND OUT ABOUT NALTEXONE THAT I CAN ORDER ONLINE WITHOUT A SCRIPT FOR $ 108 A MONTH. THINK IM GOING TO GO WITH NALTREXONE. BY THE WAY SUBOXONE DOES BLOCK ANY AND ALL OPIATE SUBSTANCES BUT NOT BENZOS. IF U ABUSE XANAX OR ANY OTHER BENZO U WILL GO THRU DETOX, U WILL FEEL LIKE SHIT NO MATTER HOW MUCH SUBOXONE U TAKE!! This medication has been a double-edged sword. It helped tremendously with any withdrawal symptoms and chance of relapse. However, I am dependent on suboxone now. I was told it is 100% safe during pregnancy. This is not true. My child was born dependent on the medication and went through methadone treatment his first month of life. If I had known it posed a risk to my baby, I wouldn't have gotten pregnant until weaning off suboxone completely. A good thing-- my child is 100% healthy and happy today 2yrs later. I do wonder about the effect of this medication on teeth. I have never found any research about suboxone and tooth decay. Since being on Suboxone I have experienced an acute episode of renal failure, been diagnosed with a rare bone disease abd gave severe anemia. However, it has taken away my cravings for opiods. I just feel like I am addicted to the Suboxone now! So I just got my suboxone script. The doctor gave 4mg/1mg dose twice a day. I'm gone start taking it tomorrow. I have to see him once a week and I will be getting a urine test too. The only thing I'm worried about is people saying they have lost their teeth from suboxon is that really true? I asked my doctor about that and he said no. He also said if that happened the FDA would never approve it. | |||
