Freakonomics Radio

Hope in the Opioid Crisis
One prescription drug is keeping some addicts from dying. So why isn’t it more widespread? A story of regulation, stigma, and the potentially fatal faith in abstinence.

Another concise bit of info re--not merely those of the current addiction pandemic--BUT: when You are say, passing-a-stone?-grade problem. In brief '*Bupenorphine' is seen to be Useful Now {but politics + other matters} make it not-yet a Player in this clusterfuck.. it is far-less an addiction-hazard than {ugh} Oxycontin: which CAN be easily Rx-ed via even lower-level MDs etc. SO this topic relates to Us, and its dispensation remains in limbo--for both reasonable AND cockamamie 'reasons'--to-date.

* I have used this a few times re Cats (appropriate mg/Kgm dosage) ..even tested a smaller-than-norm/for humans: on Self: only mildly euphoric this test, but certainly 'calming' and pain-reducing.

And so it --> goes..