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Apparently, the drug company Reckitt Benckiser is launching a new Addiction411 Myspace page.  That’s actually pretty rediculous, and to me is like a certain slithering snake inviting two people we all know to eat the forbidden fruit – It will bring much pain and misery in the future – because they are the ones who make Suboxone and Subutex, which are the only forms fo buprenorphine available for sale in the U.S.

If they truly wanted to help people addicted to opiates, then would have just stopped at promoting their drug for a quick, one-week dose to lessen the severity of withdrawal symptoms – but it didn’t stop there.  Now doctors are being urged to place people on long-term opioid replacement therapy using Suboxone, which is causing a new dependence of its own and people still need detox and treatment later on to get off the buprenorphine.  When this new drug was hailed as a savior several years ago, people should have known what direction it was going in.  Can you believe they’re actually trying to ‘educate’ people about addiction, when they’re prolonging it with their own products?

I was so shocked and upset by a call that came in the other day it literally brought me to tears, especially when thinking of my own infant child.  A young mother told me how she became pregnant while undergoing methadone treatment.  She asked to be weaned down and the clinic told her no and actually wound up increasing her dose.  When her baby was born she had to watch the infant go through painfully horrible withdrawals without the benefit of a methadone detox.  It was enough to get the mother to stop taking the drug as well because she saw how evil it really was.  It’s bad enough that a methadone clinic lies to people and tells them the drug is a suitable treatment for heroin addiction, but to keep a pregnant mother on the drug and increase the dose so that she gave birth to an addicted child is downright inhumane torture.