Author: hatmaker510

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:45 pm

Hi christina and welcome to the forum. It sounds as though you’re seeing suboxone as something that your BF is abusing. Suboxone is a treatment FOR heroin (and other opiate) addiction. You said he is a heroin addict who went back on suboxone (albeit behind your back). Did it occur to you that perhaps he felt his recovery was in jeopardy and he felt he was protecting it by going back into suboxone treatment? Or there’s the other possibility that he already had relapsed and gone back to heroin and went back into sub treatment to get back into remission/recovery.

If either of those two scenarios were to be the case, then in my opinion, that’s a good thing! No, he may not have told you about it, but he took solid action to protect his possibly-wavering recovery. In other words, he was making sure he got the treatment he needed for a fatal disease (opiate addiction). (Remember, I’m speculating.)

Try not to think of suboxone as the enemy. It’s a treatment made especially for opiate addiction. It’s not a drug of abuse normally. It’s not chemically the same as "regular" pain pills and when taken correctly, they won’t get the patient high and in fact it will block other opiates from having an effect on him.

I hope this helps you understand more about how sub works. If you have more questions, please just ask. And if I’ve misunderstood something you’ve said, please clarify and I’ll reassess my response.