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  • The other I thing is that Subutex, which is Buprenorphine, is a remarkably good drug that's offering a lot of promise to people who are dependent on pain killers.

    CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2006 2006

  • Doherty tells me he is being treated at a walk-in clinic for users and is currently on a pharmaceutical opiate called Subutex "Posh and Becks, as they call it", which "doesn't get you high" but suppresses withdrawal symptoms.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

  • The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) said eight of the charges related to the dispensation of Subutex, which is used to wean drug users off their heroin addiction.

    Channel NewsAsia Front Page News 2010

  • Shot in a catch-as-catch-can manner in 2003, the film tracks the misadventures of Jani Raappana, a 20-year-old slacker addicted to Subutex, the synthetic opiate that has replaced heroin in much of Europe and pervades the youth culture of Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.

    Cooking Up Something Tasty Steve Dollar 2011

  • Shot in a catch-as-catch-can manner in 2003, the film tracks the misadventures of Jani Raappana, a 20-year-old slacker addicted to Subutex, the synthetic opiate that has replaced heroin in much of Europe and pervades the youth culture of Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.

    Cooking Up Something Tasty Steve Dollar 2011

  • "If we could have got people access to methadone or Subutex [another heroin substitute] very quickly, it wouldn't have been a ridiculous message, but we were looking at six-month waiting lists and, in some parts of Scotland, a year."

    Anthrax deaths expose addicts' plight Jack Saville 2010

  • Finally, there are those medications, like methadone and buprenorphine Suboxone and Subutex, that are sometimes used as substitutes for addictive substances.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Finally, there are those medications, like methadone and buprenorphine Suboxone and Subutex, that are sometimes used as substitutes for addictive substances.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Among the most frequently used of these medications are two other opioids, methadone and buprenorphine, the latter marketed under the brand names Suboxone and Subutex.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Among the most frequently used of these medications are two other opioids, methadone and buprenorphine, the latter marketed under the brand names Suboxone and Subutex.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

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