Suboxone

Suboxone Addiction

In general, it should be noted that addiction to suboxone is highly unlikely. Those with opioid use disorders typically have enough experience with opioids that they’ve built up a tolerance. That tolerance makes the high of suboxone hardly worthwhile or even noticeable to them. Those who would actually notice the high as a high are those whose bodies haven’t had such exposure, and for them, suboxone is an unlikely introduction to opioids since it’s not commonly trafficked for recreational use. Nevertheless, the naloxone component of suboxone can cause those struggling with opioid use disorders to experience withdrawal symptoms. Anyone who consumes too much suboxone might also experience dysphoric symptoms if they’re already opioid-dependent. Many opioid abusers experience increased tolerance quickly, and their level of tolerance may very well lead to those dysphoric effects because of the buprenorphine component acting as an opioid agonist. Those who take suboxone by way of conventionally prescribed administration routes won’t see buprenorphine’s effects mitigated at all by the presence of naloxone. Opioid dependent users who, instead, dissolve and inject suboxone experience withdrawal effects however. While one might expect this to serve as an adequate deterrent against abuse of the drug, the intravenous method can also still produce an opioid-agonist high. As such, some will take that route and deliberately endure the withdrawal simulation in order to achieve the high.