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Is there such a thing as a benzodiazepine blocker like Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) for opiate addic?

I am currently taking suboxone,(buprenorphine and naloxone) because my main addiction is to opiates and this medication takes care of the cravings, , It's a great drug because I don't get high at all on this drug and it also works as an anti-depressant. The only downside is that I am also addicted to benzodiazdpines:and when mixing any benzo's with this medication can cause serious problems even death, so I am wondering if there are any benzodiazepine blockers out there that I could take safley, so that I could be off both addicting drugs bnzo's and opiate's and with the help with a support group be clean and sober. so my question is does anyone know of any medication that blocks benzo's? Thanks

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Technically there is, it is called Flumazenil- a benzodiazepine "antidote". However it is not appropriate to use in the same manner Suboxone is used. Many doctors feel that the use of Flumazenil is almost never needed because it requires thousands, even hundreds of thousands of milligrams of a benzodiazepine to die and people rarely have taken a dose that high. So if benzo's are not taken with anything else they don't really kill. People who are physically dependent in particular will commonly have violent seizures because the drug causes almost instant reversal of benzodiazepines and they suppress seizure. Opioids don't have a critical function like that. If a person dependent on opioids goes into almost instant withdrawal it will be hell but it can't kill- benzo withdrawal can and has killed and benzodiazepine withdrawal is overall worse than opioid withdrawal. But this really applies to people dependent rather than occasional users.

    Plus Suboxone is a really complicated set up, the buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist/antagonist and the naloxone is the opioid antagonist used in an emergency situation of opioid over dose. There is no benzodiazepine like buprenorphine and it is buprenorphine's fairly unique properties that makes it so effective.

    Although I would talk with your psychiatrist about medical options for dealing with benzo's.

    Source(s): I am a medical student at a university in Montréal, QC, Canada for psychiatry and internal medicine. I have a Hons. BSc in pharmacology and I have interned with two psychiatrists, one neurologist, and at a chemical dependency rehabilitation centre. In addition, I have worked as a pharmacy assistant.
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Suboxone And Benzodiazepines

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, there is no such drug that you could take.

    And you do know what sub works so well don;t you? it is a powerful opiate, 50 times stronger than morphine. It will not work forever and it is most likely making your addiction 10 times worse than it already is. You may not feel high, but try not taking it for a week and see how you feel. sub does make you high, just not in the same way that Oxy or heroin does, but neither of those drugs lasts for 36+ hours either.

    And if you think kicking OC or heroin was hard, you haven;t seen anything yet. Sub is the drug that keeps on giving and giving and giving...withdrawals that is.

    Being on sub does not equate to being clean, not in any sense of the word.

    Source(s): www.subsux.com
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, sort of, but not for your purposes.

    Flumazenil has been on the market for over twenty years, and it's very similar to naloxone for benzos. But you can't use it, because (1) it might very well cause seizures, and those seizures can be very hard to treat (2) it lacks the agonist properties that you get from the buprenorphine and (3) it's not well absorbed from the GI tract. By the way, the naloxone isn't absorbed, either. It's just there to keep people from shooting up the buprenorphine.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    it is possible. but in certain circumstances...such as an obsessive mind projection, impossible to come to life. malicious, I know. some platonic false love, some wrong type of relation could lead, in my opinion to "impossible love relations"

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