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I completely agree. I always wonder how people say the worst will be over in at most a week. I was clean for a month and had little to no improvement. I felt nauseous and extremely feverish all this time and had so much trouble sleeping due to aggressive restless legs and hands (which I have never had when on opiates/opioids) that even a month was not enough to get rid of the debilitating physical symptoms due to lack of opioid activity. I even ate 4mg alprazolam daily (and some days 40mg diazepam instead) during this period but it had no effect on me. It was impossible to sleep and I felt like I had been tortured for weeks and there was no end in sight. I tried to get clean during this one vacation month because I am constantly working and treatment options are limited in my country and still somewhat stigmatized.

I made a conscious decision to not even try before there are similar resources in my country as this organization (Bicycle Health). We have no option to resume normal life and get prescribed suboxone. Instead, everyone is required to go to a detox facility first, and only after a failed detox period do you have a chance to be put in a queue to receive suboxone. The suboxone itself is not prescribed to you but you must initially go to a hospital or a clinic every morning for a nurse to put the tablet under your tongue and wait for it to melt completely. Then you must open your mouth for a visual inspection to confirm that all of it has melted.

If one gets lucky to get into a medically assisted treatment and goes through about a year of this daily ritual successfully, one may be able to get suboxone tablets home for weekends at first. Then after a longer period of time if you have demonstrated enough trust you may be able to get prescribed the tablets for longer periods of time. The irony of this system is that the people who get such rights usually start injecting or sniffing their tablets so that they have as much leftover as possible and sell what is remaining for about 50$ - 60$ per 8mg tablet (they receive the medication for free). It is quite difficult to get access to hard opioids here but instead, suboxone has become the drug of choice.

It is obviously better than a widespread heroin/fentanyl/oxy problem but the reason why suboxone has become such widely abused is in my opinion partly due to lack of services like this. Life would be so much easier if a person who goes to work and lives otherwise a normal life could get a prescription for suboxone without potentially losing their job and having to endure being treated disrespectfully. And even if that person would not be working, making it difficult to get legal access to buprenorphine should not be so difficult. We have no special addiction specialists where you can go confidentially and get treatment.

As a side note, the doctor who initially started helping patients with buprenorphine when it was not yet legal in my country got sentenced to jail for about 10 years if I remember correctly for transporting buprenorphine for his heroin-addicted patients. His sentence wasn't revoked even though buprenorphine treatment was officially accepted shortly after. I

Hello Professor Singh.

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It is difficult to find information in English. Perhaps you can try Google Translate to get some information:

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Karvonen_(lääkäri))

It was actually a 2.5 years-long prison sentence - not 10 years after all. I don't know where the 10-year number came to my mind.