the psychology of addiction: methadone vs suboxone

turns out, methadone isn't the greatest substitute for heroin as we once thought.
although it doesn't produce the euphoric effects of heroin, it produces the same physiological effects, hence the addictive nature of it...
obviously, this doesn't help with dependence...substitute one addictive drug for another.
suboxone is the new methadone.
well, new to Canadians (Europe has been using it for quite some time now...big surprise there...not only do we have a slower drug approval, we have less of a market for drugs...it always comes down to marketing)
suboxone has limited abuse potential because it blocks the euphoric effects of heroin.
you can't git it to someone who is high because the withdrawal effects could be deadly, but it would be useful in managing addictions.
if someone were to relapse and take a hit of heroin, it wouldn't work. they wouldn't get high.

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Words to live by: "I realized that, unlike brains, ability, or newfound wealth, beauty is the one thing that transcends class. It felt like a profound revelation at the time, but in retrospect I had known it all along, atleast since I was old enough to read. After all, the Prince married Cinderella. He wasn't scouring the local villages for the wittiest gal, or the one who could play the meanest lute solo, or even the one of most noble birth. Snow White was well-born, yes, but I somehow doubt she would have fared so well with Prince Charming if she had been aptly named Porridge Gray or Eczema Red. And I suspect that somewhere out there in fairy-tale land, Sleeping Smarty-Pants is somnolently and vainly waiting for the tender kiss of a king's son." ~Elyse Friedman, author, Waking Beauty