5 myths about using Suboxone to treat opioid addiction 

What is Suboxone and how does it work?

Suboxone, a combination medication containing buprenorphine and naloxone, is one of the main medications used to treat opioid addiction. Buprenorphene is an opioid substitute, and naloxone helps prevent addicted patients from tampering with the pills.

Using medications for opioid use disorder is known as MOUD. Use of MOUD has been shown to lower the risk of fatal overdoses by approximately 50%. It also reduces nonfatal overdoses, which are traumatic, medically dangerous, and which can cause lasting harms. With more than 100,000 overdoses from opioids each year in the United States, over the last several years, MOUD has become an urgently needed intervention that needs to be made more accessible to all patients.

Suboxone works by tightly binding to the same receptors in the brain as do other opiates such as heroin, morphine, and oxycodone. By doing so, it blunts intoxication with these other drugs, it prevents cravings, and it allows many people to transition back from a life of addiction to a life of normalcy and safety. (Harvard Medical School, USA, 08.08.2024)

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/5-myths-about-using-suboxone-to-treat-opiate-addiction-2018032014496