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  1. Darrell N Michelle Jaskulski says:

    Author should do better research. Suboxone is not in the same category as the other “psych drugs” Just inflammatory & misleading

    1. Methadone is both a highly psychotropic and psychoactive pharmaceutical drug and controlled substance; hence, it is a serious pharma psych drug regardless of how it is used or classified. (i.e. it profoundly affects the mind and psyche, thoughts and emotions)

      1. Darrell N Michelle Jaskulski says:

        Again, suboxone is not methodone

        1. Darrell N Michelle Jaskulski says:

          And the article itself says “Any drug that has such profound effects on the mind and emotions, like Suboxone or Methadone, OUGHT to be officially classified as a psych drug.” (Emphasis mine)

          1. Darrell N Michelle Jaskulski says:

            The suboxone this particular person was caught with months prior to this shooting incident may or may not have had an effect on his mind causing him to act out in this way…..my problem with the article is it seeks to lump suboxone use with all these other drugs. Although technically substance abuse could be considered a mental health problem is it really on the same level as other psychosis? All drugs have adverse side effects, they vary on condition, dosage, genetics, other health issues, etc etc etc….the larger problem is abuse of prescriptions along with over prescribing them along with mixing legal and illegal drugs and alcohol. Just IMHO the article could have been impactful had it stuck to one course and not tried to tie too many issues together.

  2. “As a matter of fact, a methadone user doesn’t have to be addicted to methadone to die from it—the very first dose can kill, unlike both heroin and morphine.”

    Warning: this article is scientifically inaccurate. Example: both heroin and morphine can kill you the first time. Also, methadone is not administered by clinics for the health risks but the need for monitoring the patients for other reasons and many people prescribed methadone are given take home doses for up to weeks at a time.

    1. The monitoring is done, first and foremost, to check for serious signs of respiratory depression … SO THAT THE PATIENT DOESN’T DIE!

      Secondarily, monitoring is performed to properly stage the withdrawal protocol.

  3. Pierre Aston says:

    The author of this article is ignorant. This article is absolute rubbish, and very misleading. People are always trying to play connect the dots with unrelated subjects so they can have something, or someone to blame. The effects of buprenorphine would not lead to this exhibition of behavior, and most people prescribed to this medication do not experience psychoactive affects; especially like they would with a true opiate.

  4. Steven_Broiles says:

    Psychiatric drugs can be dangerous, but let’s put things in their proper place here. There have been several mass shooting atrocities where the assailants were on some psychiatric drugs. But were any of them mind-controlled FIRST? If they were mind-controlled first, then they had to believe in the “mission” they were on. Why is it we have yet to hear of some psychiatric patient who just attacked a group of people without a manifesto or personal connections to some group? Why don’t those stories make it to the national news cycle?

  5. Steven Dorst says:

    Terrible article and very unscientific.. this is the kind of article that lends itself to social constructionism and we have to be very careful with this kind of thought process.

  6. Ken barun says:

    This is by far the most outlandish and ridiculous article I have ever seen. There is no scientifi link to this drug causing anything other than curative behavior. I have seen this drug work effectively in hundreds of people and never have side effects taht would cause anything adverse in behavior. The author is nuts.

  7. Psychoactive drug? What? Buprenorphine and naloxone is not in the same drug cat. As say oh, idk, Lithium. Perhaps it was the LSD, cocaine and meth, the article states, that caused the violence. I feel like I’ve lost brain cells by reading this nonsense.

  8. The Woman from Uncle says:

    Any chemical tampering to an already unsteady emotional state may be a causal factor. I have yet to see any media coverage on what these shooters, including the recent one in VA, are taking or have been prescribed. This is a great article.

  9. The level of ignorance here is astounding. A purposefully misleading article. There is not ONE reported case of violence or aggresive behavior arising from buprenorphine or naloxone. “The very first dose of methadone can kill unlike heroin and morphine.” News flash any and all opiates including bupe have the potential to kill on the FIRST dose. A naive person reading that may take what you said and od because of it. And that pie chart? Referring to drugs in a whole other category of drugs so totally irrelevant. Its sad because suboxone saves lives and people like you jump on any chance you get to put it and other meds like it in a bad light. Well correlation does NOT equal causation. Suboxone can be abused and yea some of the abusers are criminally inclined however it is not a causative factor.

    1. Billie Reiss says:

      Thank you SO MUCH for this comment! I was absolutely astounded by the content of this article- unbelievably inaccurate, ignorant, & dangerous.

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