Call now to talk with a treatment specialist about your recovery options. On top of that, variables like environment, genetics, and social surroundings play a part in addiction and drug dependence. Addiction and drug dependence are part of the chemistry of the human body and brain.
Suboxone is a sublingual tablet to dissolve under the tongue—this lets the active ingredients enter into the bloodstream over a period of time. A patient will be prescribed Suboxone to take it once a day, but over time this dose may be decreased.
The unfortunate reality is that so often a person is not able to manage an opiate addiction alone, and a regimen of Suboxone may be necessary. If that same person grinds the pill down into a powder and snorts it, the highly sensitive nasal tissues will absorb the drug and send it directly into the bloodstream. Thus allowing the drug into the brain at a faster rate. The difference between prescription opioids and Suboxone is the chance of overdosing. In other words, Suboxone minimizes and deters drug abuse.
When a person snorts Suboxone, they receive all of the active ingredients at the same time, instead of being released over a longer period. It can lead to numbness, nausea, and drowsy euphoria. Like methadone, buprenorphine is a synthetic opiate derivative developed for the treatment of opiate addiction. Considered a breakthrough in the treatment of drug addiction, buprenorphine, a tablet which dissolves under the tongue, is the only addiction therapy drug that can be administered at a doctors' office, thereby eliminating the need for travel to a methadone clinic.
The drug comes in two forms: Subutex, which is pure buprenorphine, and suboxone, which contains naloxone, an anti-abuse component that produces intense withdrawal symptoms when taken intravenously.
Subutex, meant for the early stages of addiction treatment, is more vulnerable to abuse since it does not contain naloxone, and can be snorted or dissolved into water and injected without causing withdrawal symptoms. While official numbers are hard to substantiate and largely based on estimates, subutex abuse is believed to be increasing at alarming rates in Georgia.
According to some reports, 60 percent of Tbilisi residents between the ages of 16 and 27 years old have tried the drug at least once. Some subutex habituates put the age for first-time users even younger. Notes one nine-year opiate addict, now undergoing treatment, who gave his name as Guram, "subutex is easier to find than heroin, which is why everybody is doing it.
It's a shame. Fourteen-year-olds are starting to use it, even girls. By Nino's accounts, most subutex users in Georgia believe the drug is less dangerous than heroin, which explains its growing popularity. She adds that though it is now easier to find heroin in Tbilisi than subutex, people still prefer the latter.
As a result, she said, "some people use subutex as self-treatment to get off heroin. Then they use heroin to get off subutex. Georgian users usually snort subutex, although some dissolve it in water or mix it with other medication like suprostin, an antihistamine, and then inject it. All the materials are readily available at any pharmacy, Nino said. Unlike heroin, the distribution of which is linked to organized crime and reaches Georgia from Central Asia, the INCB report claims subutex trafficking is done largely by private individuals traveling from Europe.
According to the annual report of the European Union's Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, the ease of access to subutex in Estonia and France has led to an increase in the substance on the black market in Europe.
France, where buprenorphine was first authorized for sale in , is believed to be the source of most of Georgia's subutex supplies. Suboxone abuse mostly occurs with people who have previously been known to abuse other opioids. The majority of people that become addicted to any opioid most likely never meant for it to happen, and this goes for Suboxone as well.
When Suboxone is swallowed as it should be, it will enter the bloodstream in roughly 15 minutes. When this drug is crushed up and snorted, the sensitive nasal tissues will make this drug much quicker and send it directly to your bloodstream.
That means it makes its way to the brain much faster. When it is snorted, you will receive all of the active ingredients at the same time rather than it being released over a longer period into the body. This will lead to numbness, nausea, and euphoria. The brain, lungs, nasal passages, and throat will all be in direct danger. This can include:. There is absolutely no safe way to snort Suboxone. It is not designed to be safe this way. The only safe way to ingest this medication is by swallowing the tablet.
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