Pill Boxing

“The consultant, Andrew Kornfeld of the Recovery Without Walls clinic in Mill Valley, Calif., was carrying a small amount of buprenorphine. Nicknamed ‘bupe,’ it is also known by several commercial names including Suboxone.” The LA Times with the story of the folks who were trying to get a controversial drug to Prince before his death. Some doctors think it’s the most effective tool to beat opioid addictions. Others think it creates and addiction that’s just as hard to kick: Prince’s death casts spotlight on anti-opioid addiction drug. In some ways, this is the ultimate big pharma story as the industry responds to the danger of a drug it has wildly over-prescribed by prescribing another drug.

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