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Addiction: Opiate Addiction
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Subutex and Suboxone will become useful additions to the available range of pharmacotherapies that can help opiate-dependent patients overcome their addiction. The major benefit of Subutex/Suboxone is that qualified physicians in the US will now be able to treat patients with these products in the privacy of the Doctor's office rather than only from the limited number of existing drug treatment programs.
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Buprenorphine (Suboxone) was developed as an alternative to methadone that would be equally effective in treating opiate addiction but less likely to be abused. But Baltimore officials say that a black market for the drug has developed, leading to "bupe" abuse and some deaths.
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Opiate Addiction