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The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You
By the author of The Antidepressant Fact Book and Talking Back to Ritalin, a straight-talking guide to the drugs used to treat ADD and ADHD. Known as the “Ralph Nader of psychiatry,” Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless civil and criminal cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has given him unprecedented access to private pharmaceutical research and correspondence files, access that informs this straight-talking guide to the most-prescribed and controversial class of psychoactive medications prescribed for children. From how these drugs work in the brain to documented side and withdrawal effects, The Ritalin Fact Book is up-to-the-minute and easy-to-access. With its suggestions for non-prescriptive ways to treat ADD and ADHD, it is essential reading for every parent whose child is on or who has been recommended psychoactive medication.Author Peter Breggin doesn’t try to hide his opinion: the introduction to
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If you cannot stop using oxycodone or heroin, pay cash for Suboxone– the right way, from a doc. It is a lot cheaper than using– and safer!
Dr. I just listen to your lecture on Subox. and you are totally right. Thank you for taking your time out of your busy schedule to talk to all of us. I think the people that are angry at Suboxone is because they are using something else and that is getting them high, whereas Suboxone will not get you high. Well…it’s never given me a “high” felling, never. Again I thank you for all your hard & long work educating all of us. Your are right on. I bet your a wonderful Dr. too ; )
It’s all a bit like tetris.
What is the best way to ge on soboxone without insurance ?
thanx doc !
I am usually accused here of being ‘discouraging’, so I may not be the right person. Opiate withdrawal stinks; I wish every doc who prescribes opiates was forced to go through it! The problem is that while every addict thinks that he’ll be fine once he gets through withdrawal, in reality the addiction tends to return over and over for years. In my OPINION, a person needs meetings forever, or a maintenance treatment forever. The withdrawal is miserable with or without bupe unfortunately.
i’ve been watching these videos all morning and they are very intresting. I am a vicodin and soma abuser trying to become free of these drugs for good but without the painful withdraws. I do have a couple of suboxones to help assist me in quitting. Do you request anything or can you say anything just to assist or encourage me to stay opiate free, Thank you in advance to this matter.
I felt like SHIT coming off subutex.
I tapered down SLOW, and jumped off at 0.2mg/day.
The withdrawal was no different than heroin – a 2 week death trip.
See my post on Suboxone Talk Zone in a few minutes…
Good news– I’m just about to post to Suboxone talk zone on some news you won’t want to miss!
When is the price of Suboxone going to drop?
I know it’s a relatively small price compared with the alternative, but without Insurance this gets quite expensive. I’m going to reduce myself down to 4 mgs. a day from 12 mgs. every 24 hrs.
It must be physiological, the need for more than 4 mgs. It would cut the costs down considerably .
Ok, im on suboxone an it is the reason i am alive today. I just dont understand why it has to cost so much?? My opinion about the price is that, the people that need it most are probably the people who cant afford it, otherwise they wouldnt have a problem paying for there opiate habit. I know many people that would kill for the opportunity to take suboxone,but they cant afford it. The goal is not to use drugs/opiates, why make it nearly impossible for some people to pay for it?Thank God i can!
The active ingredient, buprenorphine, has been around for 30 years. There are no long-term side effects that we know of at this point. In my opinion over ‘whether to stay on it’ is a moot point for many addicts, as there is no other option for them. Many, perhaps most, current opiate addicts cannot stay clean if they are not on Suboxone… and we KNOW the long-term harm of active using- if the person lives ‘long-term’!
Opiate blockers do block alcohol cravings– naltrexone is sold as a tablet and as a long-term injection to treat alcoholism. A generic is now on the market so hopefully the price will come down. Hopefully.
After being on suboxone for almost 3 years the difference I see in the milligrams is when your on 16mg or whatever you can go longer without dosing, and when your down to like 4mg or 2mg you feel the withdrawal quicker and need to dose sooner.
i just had my one year free from opiates and I know suboxone saved my life.
Ive been on soboxone for almost a year and honestly believe it saved my life!
this stuff seemed to have an anti-jones effect. cravings for EVERYTHING stopped. i thought it was me.. unfortunately, when i stopped, the cravings came back. but this stuff is so cool. i don’t know why it has to cost as much as it does.
how long can someone be on suboxone? or how long should they be on suoxone iv been taking it for almost a year i only take half of a 8mg pill a day and i have to say it has helpd me become normal again i found a intrest in photography had a kid got married but i do fear having to take this forever is coming off the drug as bad as heroin or opiets??? how long could someone take this drug and be safe healt wise does it have long term effects
Thanks Pompeii– I wonder about chrissy’s comments myself, since a doc is limited to 30 patients his first year of prescribing Suboxone, and 100 patients after that. No matter the size of the clinic, it is 100 patients per doc– at ALL of his practice areas. So maybe she sees 3000 patients at her clinic, but only 100 of them are treated with Suboxone. That’s one more reason that so few docs get certified– if you don’t have some special feeling about treating addiction, it isn’t worth it.
Think about how horribly in debt most docs are when getting out of med school, I mean we’re talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. If someone was only concerned about making money addiction medicine wouldn’t even be an option.
I’m really sorry you’ve been so misled I would really suggest you look into how much Docs make that work in addictionology compared to other much, much more profitable fields like dermatology. The majority of docs who work in addiction medicine really pretty much have to do it because they care, I mean seriously who would volunteer to put up with addicts behavior all day and make the least amount of money compared to other fields in medicine.
i used to use it for oxy dependence after intense surgery, but now use it as maintenence for arthritis pain. works like majic.
the location of the ceiling depends on the efficiency of dosing. I rarely see withdrawal in people tapering from 24 down to 4 mg– where the w/d really starts. Good luck at staying clean– no sarcasm intended.