Life Saving โย
January 29, 2020 – โInstead of expanding access to treatment and saving lives, government inaction has led to the creation of active street markets for these medications in Philadelphia and elsewhere,โ the office wrote in its news release this week. Krasner said his office had determined that โa few hundred peopleโ are arrested each year in Philadelphia for buprenorphine possession without a prescription. His office could not say immediately how many of those charges were prosecuted.
The District Attorneyโs Office said research indicates that most people who use buprenorphine bought on the street are using it to stave off withdrawal. Often, drug users and harm-reductionists say, itโs easier to buy buprenorphine on the street than to enter a treatment program to obtain it through a physicianโs prescription.
