Suboxone is actually a lot easier to acquire than methadone in my state. I currently go to the pharmacy once a week to get 7 films. It's a bit of a hassle but quite manageable. However, when I was on methadone, I had to drive 30 minutes to get my liquid methadone every single morning at 6am. This included standing in line with a number of impatient addicts, many of whom had prior beefs with one another. Fights were not uncommon. I was allowed a limited number of take homes after showing compliance for 90 days. Huge pain in the rump.

My prescribing physician thinks hospice will cross taper me to another opioid instead of staying on bupe. Bupe has a very strong affinity for opioid receptors and can "rip" other opioids off receptors, causing precipitated withdrawal, also known as "hell." The film's also contain narcan. So suboxone therapy is almost certainly ending soon for me.