Addictions Treatment Blog

Titan Pharmaceuticals issued a press release stating they have a patent now for their subcutaneous (implanted under the skin) buprenorphine drug that is currently finishing up clinical trials for treating opiate addicts. Not only have they gotten funding from taxpayers to develop the drug via a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for $7.6 million, but once it's through the greased palms, I mean line, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) then this company will stand to make potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from this drug.

Having just written about opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and Mexico producing larger than ever quantities of heroin, as well as the raging number of prescription opiate addicts in the U.S. currently, the conspiracy theorist inside of me can't help wonder why the timing of all of this seems more than coincidental. The scariest part is that our government is involved with every aspect of it - from the border patrol to the drug regulation and distribution to the grants developing more drugs to treat the addicts that are created - it is pure insanity. This is one example of why the government by itself will not solve addiction - it must come from individuals and non-governmental groups and drug rehabs.

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