The medical Gold Standard for treating opioid addiction is with the use of medications, like Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone). Cash prices for this prescription medicine range from $87 to $209 CASH, after having paid for a doctor's visit to a doctor who is qualified to dispense Suboxone.
Do you think maybe the doctor charges extra for this service as extra training is required? For the love of Pete (whoever he is!) - what extra training?
Oh yes - another Government mandate - there are too many of these boondoggles!
Folks with an addiction who want to change their lifestyle and habits, all too often find it less expensive to continue using. It is not a matter of will power, personality, or any other factor - money, money, money.
Cash to pay the doctor. Cash to buy the medicine. Cash for a repeat visit. Cash! Cash! Cash! And then cash to buy more dope.
So much money has been allocated over the years, and is spent continually each year through law enforcement funding, attorney general funding (AG James and Narco Ring), local attorneys, etc. etc. etc. to combat the OPIOD CRISIS. (The Real Cost). $5.5 Billion in the Federal budget last year, $1.5 billion this year.
Using GOODRX.com, $1.5 billion would provide 44,117,647 doses of Suboxone each year - FREE. This number does not include the monies spent at the state level each year as noted previously.
Isn't it about time that someone in charge takes harm reduction through medicine to the next real level?
How many more need to die!
