• Patient's self assessment using 10-cm visual analogic scale (VASE) of tablet taste, tablet size, sublingual retention time, and well-being over the past 24 hours. [ Time Frame: Each treatment Day ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
• Direct questioning of patient's final preference for one of the two buprenorphine-based maintenance therapies and their wish to continue with Suboxone. [ Time Frame: Day 5 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

This study is designed to determine if opioid dependent subjects who are already receiving Subutex prefer the Suboxone tablet over the Subutex tablet after switching from Subutex to Suboxone. Subjects who are selected to participate in this study will continue their prescribed dose of Subutex (buprenorphin 2 to 16 mg daily) for the first two days of the study (Day 1 and Day 2) then switch to and receive an equivalent dose of Suboxone (buprenorphine 2 to 16 mg daily) for the last 3 days of the study (Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5). The Day 5 Visit will be the subject's last study visit. Upon completing the study, subjects will continue their pre-study prescribed dosage of Subutex.

• Opiate-Related Disorders
• Opiate Dependence
• Drug Abuse

• Drug: buprenorphine
• Drug: buprenorphine/naloxone

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient must demonstrate their willingness to participate in the study and comply with its procedures by signing a written informed consent.
• Patient must be at least (>=) 18 years of age, of either sex.
• Patient treated for opioid dependence with Subutex® with a stable daily dose between 2 mg and 16 mg daily, for at least 6 months.
• Patient who do not inject/misuse their treatment with Subutex®.
• Patient must be free of illicit opiate drug use as assessed by urine test performed prior to inclusion.
• Patient must understand and be able to adhere to the dosing and visit schedules, and agree to report concomitant medications / products and adverse events to the investigator or designee.
• Women of childbearing potential (includes women who are less than one year postmenopausal and women who become sexually active) must be using or agree to use an acceptable method of birth control (e.g., hormonal contraceptive, medically prescribed IUD, condom in combination with spermicide) or be surgically sterile (e.g., hysterectomy or tubal ligation).
• Women of childbearing potential should be counseled in the appropriate use of birth control while in this study. Women who are not currently sexually active must agree and consent to use one of the above-mentioned methods should they become sexually active while participating in the study. Women of childbearing potential must have a urine pregnancy test with negative result within 2 weeks prior to inclusion (as performed under control of the investigator or designee).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient not eligible for treatment with Subutex® or Suboxone® according to the legal drug attachments.
• Patient refusing to take the daily dose of the study medication under control in the center.
• Patient unable to complete the evaluations.
• Women who are pregnant or nursing.
• Patient with a history of hypersensitivity to buprenorphine hydrochloride or naloxone hydrochloride dihydrate or any excipient of Subutex® or Suboxone®.
• Patient with a current evidence of alcohol abuse.
• Patient with severe respiratory dysfunction, severe hepatic dysfunction, acute alcohol intoxication or delirium tremens .
• Patient with rare hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, the Lapp lactase deficiency or glucosegalactose malabsorption.

• Initiation or increase in the dose, within the past 7 days or scheduled during the study, of a treatment with:

  • benzodiazepines,
  • other depressants of the central nervous system: other morphine derivatives (analgesics, antitussives), certain antidepressive agents, sedative H1 antihistamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, anxiolytics other than benzodiazepines, neuroleptics, clonidine and clonidine-like agents and monoamine oxydase [MAO] inhibitors,
  • CYP3A4 inhibitors,
  • CYP3A4 inducers.
• Patients who have any current evidence of clinically significant hematopoietic, metabolic, cardiovascular, immunologic, neurologic, hematological, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, psychiatric, cerebrovascular, or respiratory disease, or any other disorder which, in the judgment of the investigator, may interfere with the study evaluations or affect patient safety.
• Patients who have used any investigational product within 30 days prior to enrollment.
• Patients participating in another trial at the same time.
• Patient who intend to donate blood during the study or within 3 months after study completion.
• Patients in the exclusion period of the "Fichier National des Personnes qui se Prêtent à des Recherches Biomédicales" (National Index of Persons Participating in Biomedical Researches, or National Index of Volunteers).
• Patients without Social Security number, or whose maximum annual compensation (4,500 €) has been exceeded.