“President Trump is expected to sign a bill to expand medication-assisted treatment but it remains unclear as to how soon that will take place.
A new feature by NPR underscores a potentially dangerous conundrum for health care professionals and individuals seeking treatment for opioid use disorder: while buprenorphine (also known as Suboxone, Subutex and Zubsolv) has proven effective in blocking the effects of opioids, it’s also difficult to find and a challenge to obtain due to federal limits on prescribers.
As a result, many prospective patients have turned to the illicit market, where Suboxone can be obtained via diversion, or from patients who sell or give away their own prescriptions.”
Read more at: https://www.thefix.com/lack-suboxone-access-leads-users-need-black-market
Source: TheFix.com – October 9, 2018
