Over the past couple decades, as opiate addiction treatment has evolved, many addiction treatment providers have remained reluctant to give up on abstinence-based programs for recovery. A persistent stigma against Medication-assisted treatment prevented the integration of buprenorphine, naloxone, and methadone into mainstream addiction therapies. It’s time to reduce that stigma by getting these ...
Questions About Treatment With Suboxone
The substance abuse professionals who supervise Suboxone therapy understand that the family members and significant others of persons with opiate addiction have many questions about treatment with Suboxone. Families wonder if Suboxone therapy is well regulated, and whether buprenorphine, the generic medication in Suboxone and Subutex, represents a good treatment option for their loved one. The ...
Potential Changes for Suboxone Doctors
Everyone agrees, with the continuing increase in opioid overdose deaths, that access to Suboxone doctors must become easier. There’s no reason why someone should struggle with pain pill or heroin addiction and then die while waiting to get into a program that offers Suboxone or its generic equivalent, buprenorphine. Experts still have not agreed, however, on whether to change the ways that ...
Suboxone For Addiction: A New Treatment Model
A PCP Reaches Out for Help Gary Enos, M.D., editor of the Addiction Pro journal published online for substance abuse treatment professionals, has written about a program operating out of Washington, D.C. It all began through efforts by Edwin Chapman, M.D., to help stabilize his patient population. It seems, as a demographic group, his private practice’s average patient is a 52-year-old male who ...
Go Ahead and Grieve During Drug Addiction Treatment
There is a whole range of emotions that you experience when you go into drug addiction treatment. Most people who realize they’ve become addicted to opiates face a desperate desire to quit using, combined with anger at themselves because they want to keep using, and frustration at the people around them who don’t understand the unique nature of their addiction. We previously discussed how ...
Facts About Methadone Therapy
There are many myths and misunderstandings about methadone therapy that cause people to put off treatment with methadone to control opiate addiction. Some people have difficulty tolerating the idea of reporting to a methadone treatment program on a daily basis. Many people hesitate because they worry about the cost, although in some states, many aspects of treatment are covered at least to some ...
