Is Suboxone bad to snort

Answer 1

Answer #1

It's not dangerous to snort Suboxone, but it is rather pointless. Suboxone tablets do not dissolve well in the stomach: that is why Suboxone is a sub-lingual medication, meaning that it dissolves under the tongue. Swallowing it before it's dissolved will have virtually no effect.

The reason people snort drugs is that snorting a drug sends it straight up to the brain, giving you an instant high. But Suboxone doesn't work that way -- it has to be dissolved with saliva and swallowed, in order for it to work. So by snorting it, all you're really doing is sending it up your nose, and then back down to your throat, where it will be dissolved by your saliva and sent straight to your stomach, like it's supposed to be taken. So you might as well skip the long trip up your nose and back down your throat, and just dissolve it under your tongue the normal way.

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Answer #2

I'm sorry, but the above answer is completely incorrect. Your nose and your mouth are both mucous membranes, and so they both absorb medications the same way. The reason that people snort Suboxone and Subutex is because your nose will absorb more than under the tongue, plus you don't have saliva up there to wash it away - the longer it sits on the veins of the mucous membrane, the more that is absorbed. If I remember correctly, 35-45% of the medication is absorbed under the tongue, while 55-65% of the medication is absorbed nasally. Very little, if any, Suboxone is absorbed in the stomach. This is the same for other drugs that can snorted - cocaine for example. It works very well when snorted, but not very well when swallowed. You could in fact put cocaine under the tongue and it would work better than eating it, but not as well as snorting it. The biggest problem with snorting any drug is the amount of "cut" or other ingredients that are included. With pills like Suboxone, there is a lot of binder, sugar, filler, etc. These can wreak havoc on the nose, causing sinus infections, Meningitis, septum deterioration, and many other very bad things. The "cut" in cocaine is actually better for your nose than the "cut" in Suboxone, because the stuff in Suboxone isn't meant to be snorted. Now if you wanted to get really crazy, you could purify the Suboxone by removing the buprenorphine from the rest of the materials. It would be a simple process of finding the solubility of buprenorphine in different liquids and then comparing that to the solubility of the Narcan and the rest of the "cut" to discover a way to use those multiple liquids to remove what you don't want, step by step. There are many explanations/tutorials on making and using extractions on the internet that describe this technique/process. Then once it's purified, snorting it would be easy (as well as shooting it, but that's bad!). For now, just stick it under your tongue like you're supposed to.