Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Medicine
 
chapter
Regulations Governing Prescribing of Opioids and Buprenorphine [18 VAC 85 ‑ 21]
Action Initial regulations
Stage Emergency/NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 5/3/2017
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4/5/17  8:24 am
Commenter: Nicole Shank, SWA

Not Prescribing Subutex Even With Documented Allergy
 
I am in Ohio AMD currently pregnant and on subutex. What I've found is that some people are actually allergic to the nalaxone in Suboxone and can become very sick when it is taken. We do not prohibit a person with allergies to an antibiotic from receiving the next best option so why is it fair to do with Subutex? The government is stepping in where they should be monitoring prescription distribution and the policies required for the doctors prescribing Subutex. Everything is abused if it has any desirable traits. To make people trying to better their lives from a past addiction to lose any chance at receiving their medication is unfair and unjust. We are being treated differently because we are addicts. Most opiate addictions stem from doctors over prescribing narcotic pain meds. It's time to move forward in the battle against heroin addiction and passing this bill is pushing hundreds or thousands of recovering addicts back into addiction because without their medicine they are very sick, just like a diabetic without insulin or a cancer patient with no access to pain relief or chemotherapy. You're playing with people's lives when people are dying left and right due to opiate addiction. Please reconsider this decision. Thank you.
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