Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone

Suboxone, a medicine that contains buprenorphine and naloxone, helps people struggling with substance use disorder avoid turning to heroin and illicit fentanyl and opioid painkillers by blocking their cravings and physical withdrawal symptoms.

This medicine to treat opioid addiction is hard to come by — only a fraction of doctors are approved to prescribe it. So some people trying to quit a heroin habit turn to a black market for help.

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Jake Harper