Author: Oxy-Ed
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:39 am
Brushing your teeth won’t affect the absorption. If he truly keeps the sub under his tongue for the 10 minutes then brushing after won’t reverse what has already dissolved. If he is swallowing without saying so then he won’t be getting the right amount of med. After 10 minutes under the tongue, your body has absorbed all it will absorb. Some people (myself included) like to keep it under the tongue until your left with nothing but pure saliva. But after the 10 minutes or until the whole pill is dissolved, your body has already absorbed all it will. The reason why we dissolve under the tongue is we have capillaries under the tongue and the drug gets absorbed into these capillaries which lead the drug to your blood system. So brushing your teeth wouldn’t change what’s already in your blood. Although I was told by my doctor to not drink for 20 mins after. But this is due to allowing any piece that’s undissolved under the tongue to fully be dissolved. Drinking would wash away the last piece. As far as using subs and using heroin and being confused to why he can still get high off the heroin has to due with the binding of the drug to the opiate receptor. Buprenorphine has a very high affinity to the opiate receptor. But if you take a high dose of another competing drug such as heroin and you take a high enough dose, you can displace the sub from the opiate receptor and allow the heroin or other drug to take it’s place and your high! But this back and forth game of taking subs then taking enough drugs to get high and back to subs is really bad on the body and is a cheat to rehab. Subs are not intended to be used to get you through a rough patch until you can score. They are intended to get you through withdrawals, through your emotional rehab and allow you time to get a plan together on how you will remain drug free. Hope this helps and I hope your brother gets the help he needs and ACCEPTS it.
