Posted by Elizabeth on August 11, 2001, at 0:27:05
In reply to Re: buprenorphine, legal issues » Elizabeth, posted by MB on August 10, 2001, at 17:31:25
> Ah Ha...I hadn't even thought of that. I wonder what he was giving the patients. Maybe it was the pure codeine, not the Tylenol preparation.
It's possible. I like to say (about the opiate preps with APAP, ASA, ibuprofen, etc. added -- Tylenol #3, Percocet, Percodan, Vicodin, Vicoprofen, etc.) that they add a poison to the drug in order to make it safer. (In reality, of course, it's to make it less safe to use large amounts, thus increasing the already high odds that drug addicts will die a horrible and painful death.)
> Yeah, I see their point too. Giving an addict free reign over self-administration would be tantamount to telling the street junky, "just don't increase your dose." But my understanding is that buprenorphine doesn't get you "high."
Your understanding is consistent with my experience.
> > What I think is screwy is that psychiatrists claim to embrace the disease model of addiction, but they still treat addicts as though that "disease" is a moral failing.
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> Unfortunately, just because you're seen as having a disease doesn't mean you won't be looked upon with disdain by physicians for having that disease (**especially if the doctors don't know how to cure that particular disorder**).The blame-the-victim attitude just strikes me as blatant hypocrisy. You can't say that someone has a disease and continue to blame them for it -- you can pick one or the other, but not both.
-elizabeth
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