suboxone and alcohol

[GMDaly1420]

Can suboxone also help alcohol cravings?

[pace2121]

I can drink normally on suboxone as well.  I used to drink quite a bit  (about 6-8 beers a night) and now I drink only on the weekends with no problem).  Although I never considered my self an alcoholic, the suboxone certainly helps with the urge to drink and actually inhibits me from getting to intoxicated and fiending for opitates like I used to. It's weird!  When I take suboxone and drink and even if I get drunk I don't want any opiates which was impossible before I started taking the suboxone.  It's good for many thing and helps you truly get your life back together!

[fishmeal]

I seem to be able to drink like a normal person on the buprenorphine.  I know that's weird but true.

[FLaddict]

Not that I have ever heard of. However Naltrexone is used for alcoholism.   I would thing they would deter from using a narcotic to keep someone from drinking. that would just be creating a new addiction to another substance.  Naltrexone works on the neurotransmiiters. I believe the brand name is Revia.

[banana911]

i can  not tell you for sure.  previous to this detox i was on sub for 2 years - - i don't think sub is intended for alcohol at all.  purely opiate addictions, i am pretty sure anyway.  and sub is addictive in its own sense - - so even if you were to get some posative effects i think it is a bad idea.  

there is a drug that i tried once called campral (spelling) which helps alot.  you can drink a beer, you can order a second even - - you just won't like it that much.  i can't explain it.  maybe you can search it out on the web or talk to a dr about it further.  and i think there are more extreme drinking prescriptions, like you will get pysically sick or such - - but i don't know for sure.  

hope this helps.  i am sure others know more...