Suboxone maintenance is used in treatment centers to "keep people off fentanyl", however, it creates more problems than it solves. Patients are paid to attend treatment centers by marketers who are paid salary+commission in the form of bonus to lure patients from OH, FL, NY, NJ, PA and anywhere else that has out of state benefits that pay out well. Treatment centers over bill, looking to collect a percentage and then saddle the patient with significant medical debt which is likely bundled and sold as junk. Inmates' addiction to suboxone is enabled as well, they are kept high while incarcerated and they learn nothing from the "rehabilitation" process of being in prison. The over prescribing is leveraged to create and facilitate a black market for suboxone, which is just as addictive as fentanyl long term- just harder to overdose and die on.
Now, it's going to be even easier to get people hooked on this. It's better than methadone, but it's habitual use is detrimental to a person's survival. Rehab romances wind up producing kids to drug addicted parents and those kids grow up under terrible circumstances. Gotta goto work, I'm interested to hear your opinions! Thanks!
The heroin's still in the system, but what else happened? Trump took over and stopped the CIA smuggling poppies/opium out of Afghanistan's poppy fields which constitute 70% of the world's supply. Meanwhile, China got into the business making fentanyl which is synthetic and requires no actual poppies. Turns out they can make it even cheaper than heroin, so they sent it to the cartels, who started cutting it into everything and all of the sudden, our heroin epidemic became a fentanyl one.
Normally, the progression is that a person starts on the "safe" pills like oxycodone or hydrocodone. Whether they start recreationally or with a legitimate prescription under the care of a doctor, if they 1) stay on it too long or 2) take doses that are too high, they eventually run the risk of addiction. The addict then will try and keep using whatever "safe" thing they were getting, but that stuff's expensive, and prescriptions eventually run out. When the money or the supply runs out, they turn to heroin, which is cheap as hell and gives them a kick they haven't had in a while because of the huge jump in potency. Heroin's 50x more potent than morphine. Naturally, at that point, it's just a matter of time before they OD. Prior to fentanyl 50%+ of opioid OD deaths were heroin. It's closer to 70%+ now with fentanyl because it's 100x more potent than morphine, and they cut it into weed and E and the poor idiot kids have no idea what they're getting - and it only takes one to an opioid-naive person. Even a tiny spec of powder can absorb through the skin and kill you. It's that strong.
There are options even stronger than that, large animal tranquilizers, but I think the cartels don't mess with it because it'd kill their guys as fast as their customers. But they do go to the veterinary meds. Tranq is exactly that. Crocodile (however they mangled spelling) was another. Both eat the skin right off of the bodies of the junkies, so they remain as really niche products (thankfully).
Suboxone maintenance is used in treatment centers to "keep people off fentanyl", however, it creates more problems than it solves. Patients are paid to attend treatment centers by marketers who are paid salary+commission in the form of bonus to lure patients from OH, FL, NY, NJ, PA and anywhere else that has out of state benefits that pay out well. Treatment centers over bill, looking to collect a percentage and then saddle the patient with significant medical debt which is likely bundled and sold as junk. Inmates' addiction to suboxone is enabled as well, they are kept high while incarcerated and they learn nothing from the "rehabilitation" process of being in prison. The over prescribing is leveraged to create and facilitate a black market for suboxone, which is just as addictive as fentanyl long term- just harder to overdose and die on.
Now, it's going to be even easier to get people hooked on this. It's better than methadone, but it's habitual use is detrimental to a person's survival. Rehab romances wind up producing kids to drug addicted parents and those kids grow up under terrible circumstances. Gotta goto work, I'm interested to hear your opinions! Thanks!
Whatever happened to Heroin, all I ever hear about is Fentanyl now. This change happened in like 5 years too it seems like
The heroin's still in the system, but what else happened? Trump took over and stopped the CIA smuggling poppies/opium out of Afghanistan's poppy fields which constitute 70% of the world's supply. Meanwhile, China got into the business making fentanyl which is synthetic and requires no actual poppies. Turns out they can make it even cheaper than heroin, so they sent it to the cartels, who started cutting it into everything and all of the sudden, our heroin epidemic became a fentanyl one.
Normally, the progression is that a person starts on the "safe" pills like oxycodone or hydrocodone. Whether they start recreationally or with a legitimate prescription under the care of a doctor, if they 1) stay on it too long or 2) take doses that are too high, they eventually run the risk of addiction. The addict then will try and keep using whatever "safe" thing they were getting, but that stuff's expensive, and prescriptions eventually run out. When the money or the supply runs out, they turn to heroin, which is cheap as hell and gives them a kick they haven't had in a while because of the huge jump in potency. Heroin's 50x more potent than morphine. Naturally, at that point, it's just a matter of time before they OD. Prior to fentanyl 50%+ of opioid OD deaths were heroin. It's closer to 70%+ now with fentanyl because it's 100x more potent than morphine, and they cut it into weed and E and the poor idiot kids have no idea what they're getting - and it only takes one to an opioid-naive person. Even a tiny spec of powder can absorb through the skin and kill you. It's that strong.
There are options even stronger than that, large animal tranquilizers, but I think the cartels don't mess with it because it'd kill their guys as fast as their customers. But they do go to the veterinary meds. Tranq is exactly that. Crocodile (however they mangled spelling) was another. Both eat the skin right off of the bodies of the junkies, so they remain as really niche products (thankfully).