Does anyone else think the addition of naloxone to buprenorphine (to create Suboxone) was just a huge pharma scam that has harmed an untold amount of people?

One, it raised the cost of the drug (a life saving drug, buprenorphine) and put treatment out of reach from many if not most.

Two, the addition of naloxone made the combo intolerable for so many. I meet so many people with opiate dependence who don't think buprenorphine (subutex) can help them because they had a bad experience with Suboxone. That leaves them with the only choice of going to the methadone clinic and so many people will not do that.

The addition of naloxone has killed and injured far more people than were ever helped by the putative deturance to IV use. IMO