Addictions Treatment Blog

Titan Pharmaceuticals issued a press release stating they have a patent now for their subcutaneous (implanted under the skin) buprenorphine drug that is currently finishing up clinical trials for treating opiate addicts. Not only have they gotten funding from taxpayers to develop the drug via a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for $7.6 million, but once it's through the greased palms, I mean line, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) then this company will stand to make potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from this drug.

Having just written about opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and Mexico producing larger than ever quantities of heroin, as well as the raging number of prescription opiate addicts in the U.S. currently, the conspiracy theorist inside of me can't help wonder why the timing of all of this seems more than coincidental. The scariest part is that our government is involved with every aspect of it - from the border patrol to the drug regulation and distribution to the grants developing more drugs to treat the addicts that are created - it is pure insanity. This is one example of why the government by itself will not solve addiction - it must come from individuals and non-governmental groups and drug rehabs.

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Florida may be home to many wonderful things, but it is also a haven for prescription drug addicts. There is an overabundance of pain clinics where people, many from out of state, are able to walk in with a 'condition' and walk out with more than 200 pills of heavily addictive drugs such as prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin or Vicodin.

Florida's Manitee County is adopting strict laws as an emergency action to try and regulate, limit and ultimately get rid of these types of pill mills. Prescription drug addiction has led many people to seek addiction treatment centers in Florida, while thousands of others don't survive. Over 200 drug overdose deaths were reported for 2009 just between Manatee and Pinellas Counties alone, and the numbers are sure to be higher this year.

It is horribly ironic that we will spend millions of dollars fighting supply reduction in other countries while our own government, pharmaceutical industry and thousands of doctors are actually creating more addicts and deaths within our own borders. It's sickening that these doctors are allowed to practice, that the clinics are allowed to have their own drug-dispensing pharmacies, and that there aren't more strict laws in place to regulate these places.