Thankyou for helping Educate people who do not understand suboxone... We as recovering addicts go thru enough judgement, We do not need it from other addicts. Take it slow yall. Get on a stable dose & Build your recovery foundation. If you shot dope for 10 yrs, you can not expect to be sober Over night. It takes time. Recovery comes from within. You can be completely sober from all substances & have No recovery at all. Addiction & dependence are 2 very different things!

Suboxone was the best thing that ever happened to me. Almost 5 years clean and I have a life, a life where I don't steal or lie daily. I will always be thankful for what it has done for me. 💞

I’m in Tennessee and I’ll tell you one thing we don’t have doctors like Dr. B we need more of him. I sure wish he was around here.

Got to love this guy he's so concerned about his clients not all doctors like this.. Much love ❤️

Finally a video I can relate to. I just started 8 mg suboxone two days ago and my cravings immediately disappeared, I have more motivation for life, things interest me again and I am excited for long term recovery. I was always scared of long term effects or having to get off it in the future but right now I will just stay focused on my recovery. If I have to take it for life so be it. I've spent 20 years chasing drugs and ruining my life, it sucks that society has injected these fears into our minds. The AA community is also very one sided when it comes to recovery. If you are not fully abstinent they look at you like an outsider. It's definitely an ideology that can be dangerous for people in early recovery. That shame and guilt keeps people prisoners of an idea.

Been on subs for 3yrs...been completely clean for 3 years. I also have a wonderful life one hell of a job and a loving relationship with my wife.

This is a great doctor, he has the big picture in mind and realizes that it's about his patient's quality of life. His patients are very lucky.

Suboxone gave me my life back. I hate to admit how overwhelmed with cravings and urges I was poisoned with. It changed the narrative from me being an addict NEEDING TO USE, to I'm sick and this medicine helps me live a comfortable life again.

This man really cares, he's really trying to help save lives!!!

I just found Dr. B today just want to say his patients are very lucky he is very intelligent and easy-going addiction doctor that really thinks it’s a disease I haven’t found one of them in several years going through my addiction

Everyday learn more and your way of teaching is a definite life saver

I was a heroin addict for 23 years April last year I went onto buprenorphine for the first time I started on 16 mgs and I'm doing a reduction along with CBT therapy relapse prevention emotional regulation meditation lots of things I'm now on 2mg but taking it slow n steady I've been clean from heroin and street valium for a year now I lost my partner to a morphine n etizalame overdose in Dec I now work in addiction love and learn so much from you Dr B thanks Jx

Hello J F, thank you so much for your reply it gives me hope as a mother. My son's name is Marcus and I am Sandi. Again thank you for your advice. God bless and be safe....You will also be in my prayers!!

It took me a long time to accept i need to be on Suboxone for life, but once i did, i felt like heavy load off my shoulders n can just live my life like a normal human being.

I’m so glad I’ve found this channel there’s hope

I absolutely agree with everything you’d said! My in-laws spend over 50k on a rehab in Malibu . They did a short term suboxone taper and I was there for 2 months then a sober living g for another 2 months and did amazing for the time being. The moment I got back to my state (AR ) after 5 months cleaned I relapsed. That was in 2016. And I struggled with my addiction til nov. of 2019 when I found your channel and entered into an mat program. You have saved my life and my families thank you so much!

Your discussion is the most lucid and nuanced I have read/heard. Thank you

Always dropping buckets of intelegent knowledgeable facts on the people. Much respect Dr. B 😎

EXCELLENT VIDEO! SO INFORMATIVE.

Hello Dr. B. We just watched this video in my group session and it was very informative for all of us. I’m excited to say that now Maine has been shown what a real provider looks like and what they should be doing for their patients.

Sounds more like a great way to capitalize drug users... I thought the point of rehab and detox is to help the patient rid themselves of their dependency to any drug whether its legal or illegal...

Thanks for this video. This is very helpful.. Just found your channel and already love the new info.

It is nice to hear someone make sense about suboxone!

Awesome video dr been on it 16 years and have no plan to get off love ya

Agree with all you guys that after over 20 years of using, with all the colorful bells and whistles that come with that ride, 8 mgs Suboxone daily has given me a life worth living. 5 years in it still works perfectly. Never have cravings. Like never. I've had maybe a handful of using dreams but none that followed me out of bed. I will say I've lost some weight and muscle mass and some back pain and general inflammation but that maybe that I'm 52? Even still I'll take that over living in the bushes covered in lice and tics, robbing, begging, stealing, etc. Thank you Covenant Community Care on Michigan Ave in Detroit for saving my life and thank you Gloria, Dr Patti, and Dr G and all the beautiful people that make up that program!!! So grateful! Strength and Love!

I now this is about suboxone but i was on heroin an metherdone for over 33 years iv bin on suboxon aswell but i can honestly say bean on a script saved my life im now over 2 years clean i trewly wish everyone whos tryin to get clean it can be doune an trust me ones you get clean an get your life back its so werth it

3 years clean because of MAT & Suboxone ❤ Just got diagnosed with ADHD and hopefully will be medicated.

Your a great person Dr.B!

Thanks for explaining this 👍

I been on 12 mg for about almost half a year. I was looking for this video!! Thanks brother

Gots to love on every topic . my come to place for recovery on line..

I really appreciate your videos , very helpful and insightful

By the way, you're an intelligent man and everything you're saying is on point.

This makes absolute sense….I am so tired of this trading one addiction for another crap…. Thank you for your scientific approach

What an awesome explanation, Thank you!! :-)

I’m so glad you spoke on what addiction actually means. Ty

I’m 23 and I’ve been on fentanyl for the last 3 years. I started suboxone on a taper while still using for about 2 weeks then completely quit and am just taking suboxone I am now just over a month clean from fentanyl. I haven’t needed to take more than a quarter of one of the two 8 milligram pills I’m prescribed. they have one hundred percent been what’s helped me beat fentanyl. I do not like the idea of relying on medication to feel alright and I intend on getting clean from all chemicals except pot but for now I’m on a longterm taper.

it is trading one for another. Its definitely better than dope, and for some people taking subs forever works, but it is completely justified to not want to be on subs. Why live like that? not to mention all the jobs that drug test... its better to just get ENTIRELY clean. day 7 CT no subs EDIT - over one month no suboxone, almost one year no fentanyl/heroin.

I am living my best life your right thanx I understand now I'm good I'm a healthcare provider I have a bank account I'm good but I've been on it for 10 years and I've tried to taper I got sooooooo sick I felt baddddd

Definition of Addiction is a Slave to ones own master, Ive battled with Alcohol and opioids for over 25 yrs .

This is a great video Dr B and thank you so much for your time and support.

One of the good guys

You are Gem 💎 to our community Dr. B. Mashallah god keeps you healthy forever to be our support and voice!! ❤️

Bro I ❤ this Dr!!!!

Thank you for the video. Very important information. I have been on 16mg for 8 months going on 9 months sober and my life has improved drastically!

Great video

This program works for me it has been 7 months and it has been the most productive and comfortable 7 months for me since 2006 I thank you and your way of treating addiction Thank you 🙏🏻

I've been taking Suboxone for 8 years. I think I recently accepted being a lifer. This drug has saved my quality of life 100 fold. No way I would go back to that life.

I wish you practice here where I am I’m a chronic pain management patient and I never get my pain medicine done right I keep telling them that they are not helping me but they don’t listen I either stop taking them or run out of the medicine before my appointment and now they are saying I am an addict and if no medicine in my system again next appointment I am done I don’t know what to do I had radioactive iodine treatment in March and have esophageal problems so I don’t keep stuff down very well they are trying to find me a gastroenterologist

The best video on hear about this

Does long term suboxone use have a negative effect on dreams/memory? I have been on suboxone maintenance for 5 yrs under the supervision of my primary care Dr. it has changed my life, along with many others tools! I use to get what I call “anxiety dreams” (not correct term I know) but I noticed with suboxone I don’t get those awful dreams. Here’s where my question comes in……. I am currently back in college and practicing learning/studying techniques. A point that keeps reoccurring is the importance of sleep and dreams in terms of memory. Does suboxone have a negative effect on dreams and memory? (I am having trouble wording this so I hope my actual question is coming across correctly)

Well said

I have a question. I been looking for this all over the internet and can't find an answer. I began subutex treatment 3 years ago. Everything has been great except for one thing. I get severe itching all over my body. I never had this problem before. I been to doctors and dermatologist and they can't figure out what is going on with me. This itch is so bad it really effects my quality of life. I went to see my primary doctor today and she believes it could be from the subutex I take. I don't know what to do. If anyone else has had this happen please let me know. I would appreciate any input. Thanks!

Ive been to an addiction recovery one's and put on subutex been on for 1 / half years never used since 😁

Thinking about buprenorphine for my mother. She has a long history of substance abuse. She's 68, needs a hip replacement badly and has severe pain. She takes Nsaids mostly.....her doctor will prescribe her a teeny amount of hydrocodone, seriously like 15 pills every few months.....and she lives for those prescriptions. Obsessed with them. She will wait until her doctor is out of the office to try to get a refill. Also she drinks as well. I'm nervous for when she gets her hip replacement....if she will milk the pain meds for her surgery for 6 months... I'm in a buprenorphine program myself she doesn't know lol. Not sure how to tell her about it.... I had a problem pretty bad with rx drugs....I used to feel guilty not giving her any when she would have killed for something probably

Dr. Have you been on suboxone foamy length time? I was on it for ten years. The first few years were great. The last two I felt weird all the time. I slowly detoxed for about a year. At that time I wa at an almost microscopic dose. If I didn't take it I felt horrible. I finally had to go back on short acting opioid and weaned off them. Finally, feeling human again. I realize everyone's different. A friend of mine had a five bypass heart surgery to get off metadone.

I switched from methadone 10 mil to 1 mil subs yesterday. The reason I switched is because I was told by the MAT doctor that subs don’t cause nerve damage like the methadone did. But now I’m getting the same tingling and numb feeling swelling on my toes feet and fingers. My primary doctor says it’s because of the opioids. Now I don’t wanna lose any part of my body using subs and I don’t wanna stay on it longer then I have to be. Any advice?

Such a great educational informative video. Thank you I am on long term suboxone treatment. And people will say I am not clean.

Dr B. Sorry I’ve not been on lately. Hoosier Daddy here. Aka. Tim. Question. I’ve been on subs for over 3 years! Stabile no relapses. Before that was on methadone up to 70 mg a day and over 3 x 30 mg of roxycodone before that! Before that I was taking handfuls of heydrocodones for pain. Is it bad to just cut down to help with something like testosterone and other side effects? I just am tired my friend of taking meds! I really understand that addiction is not taking meds everyday! I wish you were here in Indiana...

I'm so confused.. if my body is withdrawing, that means nothing about cravings, and cravings, truly mean nothing if not acted upon. Just took my first .5mg of suboxone today.. yet was informed to continue use (I was using .5 a pill every 2 hours because I was self tapering my use) I was fine with the slight withdrawal symptoms as I self tapered.. now I have continued use as instructed and am maintaining the same schedule... should I have instead have been tapering by waiting until withdrawal symptoms and only using enough to feel normal? That would seem like far less amounts used and faster..

Thank you so much for knowledge and advice! I am going to start suboxone in two days and I'm really nervous. I have a question I have not been able to find any answers to yet. I have a fatty liver from taking pain pills for 16 years. Is suboxone going to be easier on my liver than the acetaminophen that is in prescription pain pills?

i was prescribed suboxone after a battle with heroin addiction. i found myself homeless and lost. i was on MAT for 10.5 years and i moved from NY to Oregon for employment and i found myself in a world of hurt. I tapered myself after finding out my Dr wasnt able to prescriber suboxone outside of NY. i went through HELL! Withdrawls were so bad, worse than heroin withdrawl.... , even at the low dose i was tapering off of, here i am 2 yrs later and i struggle with major depression, drug dreams constantly, sadness, , Theres days I dont even want to get up out of bed or even shower for that matter. im still struggling with the mental chaos, I was doing well on suboxone, now while Im still not using opiates, what can I do to make myself feel better ? i cant go on feeling depressed and sad.

So Doctor B. I’m currently on 16 mg of Suboxone Per day but I always think that I need to take more than that. It could just be my addict or brain thinking that I need to take more of some thing or maybe I do really need to take more than 16 mg per day. Or I always have the option of cutting up my strips into pieces to help with my obsession Of needing to take something every few hours of the day. What’s your opinion? (Please help)

3 years clean last appointment found a note... been shut down Goodluck. This is were this can get ruff

So I’ve been doing fent for about 6 months. Was on heroin for like 7 months before but I stopped using heroin completely. But I’m trying to get off fent now ( I smoke 2 sometimes 4 blues a day) I been thinking a lot about gettin on subs just to get thru the worst of the withdrawal. Any advice on this situation? I’ve heard from a lot of people that the withdrawal from subs is worse than fent or heroin. I don’t want to get addict to the suboxone I just want to use it for a week or so to get off blues. All the other recovery work I can do I just need help with the initial hump of the withdrawals.

Hey doctor B. I have a question ive been using suboxone for 3 days after 2 years on methadone. I switched from methadone to suboxoxome and i feeel like im gonna die.

Thank u my doc..

Thank you Dr for your intelligence and your hard work

I been on Suboxone for a 1 year at 12mg a day and it has helped me but now I feel so tired now and I don't know why?

I've been on bupe for 3 years. I've been clean for all of them. It's a miracle.

I have a major fear of being addicted to suboxone, i have been on them for 3 weeks and its a wonderful medication. I will not allow myself to relapse,ive lost so much of my life,relationships, and even my teeth because of opiates ,which were prescribed for pain..my problem is that i still suffer with back pain from degenerative disk disease, arthritis,and neuropathy. Having headaches as side effect from suboxone. The taste of the subx makes me gag and nauseous. I dont plan on being on subx long term.im also a heart patient and on coumadin the rest of my life from having aortic valve replacement. This video has helped answer a lot of questions i had.thank you for sharing this info..youre easing anxiety and saving lives.

Whoaaaa how did u make the cup change colors?

So, I'm on Suboxone and don't want to be on it long term because I still wake up every day feeling like I'm dope sick until I take it. It's an uncomfortable feeling that reminds me too much of bad days, of addiction, of desperation and frustration and helplessness. I hate that I have to take it to feel okay BECAUSE of my addiction. I also hate that it's something that people are so willing to steal and sell, meaning if mine gets stolen I'm forced back into that hideous sickness without any reprieve unless I have the money to replace it out of pocket. I hate that my actions have made me dependent on it but that I don't HAVE to be dependent on it, and I hate that I have to be careful to have extra on my person in case I can't go home, but not ALL of it in case it gets lost or stolen. These are my problems with Suboxone. Not that I necessarily think of it as a crutch, but that the very act of using it is so deeply embedded within the addiction community still and feels so much like the worst parts of my addiction.

“Going into detox and recovery and using Suboxone for a short term doesn’t help your addiction to Opiates” what are you saying? Are you an addict? Have you ever been addicted to heroin. I feel it’s ok to use it for short time along with therapy and program. Not sure why anyone would want to be dependent on this for years. Is not necessary

Just curious if a patient on buprenorphine can be put into a medically induced coma the way they're putting people in medical comas during this covid 19?

Here’s what the doctor is basically saying, Suboxone is replacing one opioid for another. It does nothing to stop addiction. It just may be a safer alternative to buying street drugs. I agree with him there. But, isn’t the goal to get off opioids? Not to replace one opioid for another. I wish I could give an better solution, but I can’t. The addict has to want to quit and he or she has to go through withdrawals to get the body to reset. Now, I think instead of replacing one opioid for another, we should try to find more comfortable ways to go through the 7 to 10 days of pure hell from withdrawals. There could be some effective ways to combat the withdrawal phase. But you can’t withdraw if you’re replacing one opioid for another. Suboxone may be a cleaner way to deal with so many of the negative effects of street drugs but it still is an opioid. Like the doctor said, the body can’t distinguish one opioid from another. Most junkies want to quit. They hate all the negative effects of what the opioid abuse does. However, their biggest problem is getting through the pain of opioid withdrawal. The comparison of using insulin for a diabetic or blood thinners for heart issues to opioid usage does hold water, with all due respect. People use the insulin and blood thinners to survive. You don’t need opioids to survive. The body has to reset and the only way for the body took reset itself is by withdrawing completely. Let’s examine ways to making withdrawing less severe for the addict so they can really have a chance to succeed.

I've been on 16 mg for 9 yrs...I have severe nerve, neck and spine issues...it does help with pain management...it also tells my brain...you can't get high even if you wanted to...so that thought doesn't flood my thoughts anymore... I was a vagrant addict, now I'm a productive member of society and an advocate for recovery! I'm a much better person every day! ty dr b

I'm from the U.K. and we get buprenorphine on the NHS, for free if we are on low income so it is an amazing replacement for costly street drugs. I am becoming stabilized on it and because of my age and long history of addiction would not mind if I had to take it for the rest of my life. This medication has been miraculous for me and allowed me to regain a normal like life.

I've been thru 3 detoxss.im here to help myself.ive been on subxone for 3 years!!I started on 38 mg .But thru the years I went down.now I've been on 8 mg for my 8 months on it.i wanna quit it.but I'm here to find answers ....I've been on hard drugs for 8 years .then I got on it.but what he's saying makes sense...

I switched from methadone to buprenorfin and I am miserable now. I've been on buprenorfin 20 mg for one year now. Can buprenorfin make you more depressed and anxious? I was so good on methadone

So I have a question. How many of your long term patients (%) that have used Sub for over 2 years eventually completely quit?

Brilliant constructive long term effective advice, shouldn't be this hard to find. Thank you Dr B, : ) .

Great video. I now have a much better picture of Suboxone and how it works.

I always hate when someone says its trading one addiction for another. Now I take subutex because I had a bad reaction to suboxone and vivtrol. Do you know how common that is? My treatment doctor said he rarely has ever had patients but maybe 2 that had this issue so I had to be put on subutex ive currently been on it for 17 months and its changed my life I can finally live a normal life I was addicted to pain pills for 11 years due to a bad car accident and a doctor who gave them to me like candy for the first 5 years the last 6 years I got it off the street because the doctor who was giving them to me cut me off cold turkey didn't taper me down. Ive been doing outpatient for 17 months and have an amazing addiction doc and addiction counselor. I love all your educational videos!

Started with subx squirted under tounge 13 years ago. Then to suboxone. No sex drive, 10+ years, need oral sergery on gums. I would wake up sick and shit once a week. Cant get support from NA, AA. Day 25, over the hill but never been through withdrawl like this before. I dont believe there is enough research on the effects of long term 10+ years of treatment. Tough spot. I thank suboxone for saving my life, but I am seeing it does not provide the quality of life I want for myself at this point in my addition.❤ thanks for video. I think people need to know there is a routine for stopping withdrawl and the long term 10+ year effects of the suboxone on the body.

I have been clean from opiates for 16 years. I went to a thirty day IOP. They gave us one everyday of the program. I Never had heard of it before. I had very little withdrawl symtoms I never had seen it again. Now its a street drug and people are addicted thats crazy. I felt great at the end of my rehab and had no withdrawl symptoms at all?

I love your channel and tik Tok is where I initially scoped you out. Just got off a 10 year run on Suboxone. The past two years my body really started to shut down: whites of eyes turned yellow, skin turned ashen gray,, sense of humor gone, social isolation, confusion. All symptoms other people say came from long term use. I tapered slow the past 8 months and am at 0 now And so happy. My gf says I have my sparkle back. It’s good at first but not forever,

I absolutely love your videos doctor B. Is there anyway I can get in touch with you if I have a specific question about medication? I swear I'm not a psycho......lol!!

Whats a good dose to start on suboxone and stay on

I just took myself off kratom with suboxone tapering down over a 6 day period staring at 3and tapering to 1. Nowim dependent on suboxone! I havent slept in days. This sucks

I've been there with addiction.. I stayed on it for about a year in half. Like l started with three times a day to once a day.. Sorry I forget the mg but I know it tapered off to a low dose one a day. My addiction was pain pills & Suboxone worked for me.. I did it all on my own. Without health insurance!!! I had a job thank God & spent over two grand.. I have a great doctor. Doctor vist cost plus meds cost monthly,, it can be done.Each person is different, all I knew is I couldn't live with the risk of going to jail because I was buying other people's drugs, it a choice we all have to make We all know what's Right & what's Wrong. GOD Bless, this doctor is right!

Oh man, I been on suboxone for years, and I'm really curious about a lot of issues I seen to be having. I'm not sure if it's from the suboxone, but I think it is, but maybe it's not. Man, I would love to talk to you sometime so you could answer these questions I have. It's very hard to find a doctor that knows a lot about this drug. And on my labs it shows my alt (sgpt) is high and I'm scared it's from the buprenorphine.

I’m on a taper & i just dropped to 2 mg with a lot of anxiety starting & some of my defects creeping up because of it. When I start to get this low is when I tend to mess things up. I have a large support system & personal tools to help me but to be honest I would rather stay on 4mg for as long as needed but my doctor doesn’t dive into my treatment plan. It’s a 60 second meeting once a month. Is Suboxone MAT allowed to increase the dose after dropping? I know insurance doesn’t always allow it & neither do a lot of doctors seeing as it’s a taper program.

H Henry Nice - what are your credentials Behind your recommendations? I ask because you sound completely dismissive of a large group of people who were in pain management and in spite of following drs orders, developed a tolerance and hyper analgesia because of traditional opioids. People who have no drug abuse history or history of addiction. Traditional opiates simply stopped working due to tolerance. What is your expert opinion regarding these patients? We are still in chronic pain. What do u suggest?

If you are diabetic is more likely they won't cut off you health insurance but if you are on suboxone they will cut your insurance in a blink of an eye now you are withdrawing off of it and have no choice but to look for relief the way addicts do. So please what do you think about that? I'm on this stuff and I'm scared i been on it for 4 years

Thank you for taking your time to make these videos full of much needed information. Tapering inflation is scarce... information on how often and how much to cut is not carved in stone or ink and paper from what I can find anywhere. Using a scale to weigh out my dose and try to drop from 8mg to 7mg dropping every two weeks. May not cut a MG every time. Just going on how I feel. Mostly concerned about the depression when down to the extremely small doses.

I suffered from opioid addiction and it happened by accident. Hurt myself and became dependent on the meds. It was the hardest fight of my life to come off the meds, but I won. If I have pain I go to the chiropractor!!

Awesome video Doc! I'm over one year on Sub and it's great. I feel almost normal.

Also, does Suboxone cause migraines? I have had a lot of migraine problems in my life but I tend to have pretty bad headaches at least once everyday & am taking large amounts of Tylenol & ibuprofen bc of it. I was curious if Suboxone can cause this.