proprietary formula that's really no safer, but they pimped it like it was and I'm sure paid off doctors in various way for putting their patients onto it.
Suboxone is a scam, people should be on Subutex (which there's a MUCH MUCH cheaper generic version of) if they're going to be on Buprenorphine.
What IS kinda bullshit about this though is the Government guidelines themselves recommend Suboxone over Subutex in general, so it was easy to convince doctors that Rickett's Suboxone Film (the most expensive formulation of bupe) is what they 'should be' handing out.
Basically this is mostly just all about maintaining a hegemony on a certain formulation that only they had a patent for, and getting busted for it, which makes me happy. The government however should be looking at themselves a bit as well, because they're basically the ones that demanded there even BE SUCH THING as Suboxone ... when it's clinically identical to Subutex.
According to the indictment, Indivior—including during the time when it was a subsidiary of RB Group—promoted the film version of Suboxone (Suboxone Film) to physicians, pharmacists, Medicaid administrators, and others across the country as less-divertible and less-abusable and safer around children, families, and communities than other buprenorphine drugs, even though such claims have never been established.
The indictment further alleges that Indivior touted its “Here to Help” internet and telephone program as a resource for opioid-addicted patients. Instead, however, Indivior used the program, in part, to connect patients to doctors it knew were prescribing Suboxone and other opioids to more patients than allowed by federal law, at high doses, and in a careless and clinically unwarranted manner.
The indictment also alleges that, to further its scheme, Indivior announced a “discontinuance” of its tablet form of Suboxone based on supposed “concerns regarding pediatric exposure” to tablets, despite Indivior executives’ knowledge that the primary reason for the discontinuance was to delay the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of generic tablet forms of the drug.
The indictment alleges Indivior’s scheme was highly successful, fraudulently converting thousands of opioid-addicted patients over to Suboxone Film and causing state Medicaid programs to expand and maintain coverage of Suboxone Film at substantial cost to the government.
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