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by Change | 23 Jul 2010

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An area of New Orleans is seeing an increase in the number of people becoming addicted to Suboxone.

Increasing numbers of people in an area of New Orleans are becoming addicted to a drug normally used to help those with serious addictions.

Suboxone, which comes in the form of small orange pills, normally helps relieve sickness symptoms among heroin addicts attempting to come off the drug, neworleans.com reports.

However, the drug is becoming increasingly used for recreational purposes in St Bernard Parish, especially among young adults as it allows them to experience an artificial high.

Judge Manny Fernandez, of the 34th Judicial District Court, said the drug had been found "loose and wrapped in silver foil" and that no evidence of a prescription had been discovered.

According to St Bernard Parish sheriff office's chief deputy, the problem in the town is being replicated elsewhere in the US.

"The symptoms we see here in St Bernard is that prescription pills and substance abuse continues to be a problem," he told the news provider.

Over the last few years, the prescription medication has been gradually introduced in most European countries for the treatment of chronic pain.

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