My doc would not prescribe subutex due to the so-called "abuse potential"
Isn't that annoying? I understand the position of the doctors. They've seen it all in terms of drug-seeking behavior and patients who are actually there to score in some fashion, although "scoring" buprenorphine seems ridiculous to anyone who used full-up agonists as a DOC. All bupe does for most of us is simply prevent WD, but sadly in opiate naive folk it apparently creates a high.
I do feel blessed to have found my doctor. I have read many suboxone stories where a heavy-handed doctor treats suboxone like a methadone clinic, trickling out two or three pills at a time and forcing a huge number of office visits. And underdosing, trying to wean a heavy H user using 2mg tabs. That ain't going to work well, and the patient curses the very notion of suboxone as a treatment because obviously, it doesn't work.
The whole concept of suboxone was to allow patients to have a scrip to take home and (oh my) live their lives as close to normally as possible after a proper induction period.