Bunorfin (Buprenorphine)
There are many benefits of being on buprenorphine maintenance, when compared with continuing the use of heroin:
- Maintenance treatment holds the person stable while they readjust their lives. The person may decide later to work towards reducing their dose of buprenorphine until they no longer require medical treatment.
- Using buprenorphine on its own is unlikely to result in an overdose.
- Health problems are reduced or avoided, especially those related to injecting, such as HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses, skin infections and vein problems.
- Doses are required only once a day, sometimes even less often, because buprenorphine’s effects are long lasting.
- Buprenorphine is much cheaper than heroin.
- Staying off heroin can provide the opportunity to experience more ‘life opportunities’, such as. greater personal happiness, more close and stable relationships with others, employment and more money to buy goods for personal enjoyment.
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