Suboxone from a nurse's prospective

[dedicatedtostop]

After reading many posts in regards to suboxone I feel obligated to share my professional advise.

First off I am a Pain Mgmt nurse, and I have been through many seminars presenting suboxone.

For some, I understand that there may be no other choice. But I am here to tell you that you are only replacing one drug with another. In the short term it will help with wd's but I promise you that you will soon become dependant on it and will wake up long down the road and have to wd off of it as well. Puts you right back at square one. I see this everyday!!!!Now I know that it is a must have for some, and that is great but Please look at it as a last resort. The MD I work for actually prescribes it as little as possible just for the reasons that I have stated above. Just please do the research for yourself....

[avisg]

I agree in many ways but for some its a safer alternative then the life style that they are living .I would hate to ever turn someone off of something that might safe there lives. Sub has it place I would love for with to put some guidelines in place for its use especially the need mandatory counseling ...

[guv338]

Amen!