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 Is Generic Buprenorphine Approval a Blunder? Another opinion

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Given the high price of Suboxone and Subutex in the pharmacies we have all eagerly awaited the arrival of cheaper alternatives. While I am glad more patients will be able to afford treatment with adequate doses, I believe many will want to switch from Suboxone to generic buprenorphine, and that this will lead to more abuse and
diversion. Delay in release of the buprenorphine until after release of the combination could have prevented this. What could the FDA have been thinking?

Increase in buprenorphine availability accompanied by lower price on the street may also lead more addicts to attempt to treat themselves rather than incurring the expense of medical supervision. And since many patients (and even a few docs) seem to wrongly assume that precipitated
withdrawal results from the naloxone, we may see an increase in that phenomenon when naive addicts use the drug too soon after stopping whichever full agonist they were dependent upon.

Let us hope the FDA approves a generic buprenorphine/naloxone product post haste and that its price makes it just as much of a bargain as buprenorphine alone for saving lives. And do not switch from the combination to the new generic for financial reasons alone.

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