Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone
NPRAddiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone Enlarge this image toggle caption Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Months in prison didn't rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. It's a weaker opioid Dr. Kelly Clark, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, which supports the measure that would increase access to buprenorphine, believes making the drug more widely available outweighs the risk. "It was not diverted buprenorphine that's responsible for our current situation," says Dr. Zev Schuman-Olivier, an addiction specialist and instructor at Harvard Medical School. Sponsor Message Limited access Dr. Michelle Lofwall, an addiction specialist and researcher at the University of Kentucky, says people often try to treat themselves when they struggle to get into real treatment. But Basia Andraka-Christou, an assistant professor and addiction policy researcher at the University of Central Florida, says increasing regulations or shutting down prescribers would limit treatment options for people addicted to opioids.
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